NCT00624156CompletedNot Applicable
Expressive Writing and Adjustment to Metastatic Breast Cancer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center1 site in 1 country98 target enrollmentStarted: February 2008Last updated:
Conditions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 98
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Determine the potential utility of expressive writing for enhancing existential well-being (i.e., increasing a sense of meaning and peace and reducing demoralization) among women with metastatic breast cancer.
Study Overview
Brief Summary
We are doing this study to see if writing about life experiences helps women adjust to breast cancer that has spread. We will compare two groups. One group will write about their breast cancer experience. The other will write about their daily activities. What we learn from this study may help us to find new ways to help women cope with breast cancer that has spread.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Women with Stage IV breast cancer
- •Receiving cancer care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- •At least 18 years of age
- •Can speak, read, and write in English
- •In the judgment of consenting professionals able to provide informed consent
- •Score of 4 or higher on the distress thermometer (established cutoff score for probable distress; see Jacobsen et al., 2005)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Significant psychiatric or cognitive impairment (dementia/delirium, retardation, psychosis) that in the judgment of the investigators will preclude providing informed consent and participating in the intervention
- •Currently engaging in expressive writing (e.g., journal writing that involves expressing one's feelings) on a daily basis
- •Currently participating in intervention trials with similar endpoints • Male
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Determine the potential utility of expressive writing for enhancing existential well-being (i.e., increasing a sense of meaning and peace and reducing demoralization) among women with metastatic breast cancer.
Time Frame: conclusion of the study
Secondary Outcomes
- Determine the potential utility of expressive writing for reducing distress (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety, cancer-specific and general distress) among women with metastatic breast cancer.(conclusion of the study)
Investigators
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