Positive Psychology Interventions in Patients with Advanced Cancer

Completed

• Conditions: Cancer: Breast & prostate; Cancer; Breast & prostate

• Registration Number: ISRCTN73517077
• Lead Sponsor: Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2007 Update - Department of Health

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-09-28
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

1. Age above 18 (age of consent)
2. Women with advanced breast cancer (study involves cancer patients and breast cancer is one of the commonest forms of cancer in women)
3. Men with advanced prostate cancer (study involves cancer patients and prostate cancer is one of the commonest forms of cancer in men)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Significant psychological distress - it is not ethical to include them as they may benefit from treatment with medication.
2. Current treatment with medication for psychological distress, unless they have been stable on them for more than a year - inclusion of such people will confound the results of the study as it would be difficult to say whether improvement is due to medication or the intervention.
3. Those who are unable to understand, read or write in English - a currently all the material is only available in English.
4. Those who have severe memory impairment - as they may not be able to learn and use the strategies.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Well being

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life, functioning.