Mind Body Program for Fear of Recurrence
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cancer Survivors
- Sponsor
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Enrollment
- 23
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Acceptability
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a pilot feasibility study of a group-based, mind body intervention for managing stress and fear of recurrence and promoting resiliency among adult cancer survivors.
Investigators
Gloria Y. Yeh
Associate Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients must have a history of breast, lung, colorectal, hematologic, prostate, melanoma, or gynecological cancer (by medical record and/or self-report)
- •Completion of primary cancer treatment (radiation, surgery, and/or chemotherapy) between 3 to 30 months ago
- •Ages 18 and older (by medical record and/or self-report)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Self-reported inability to speak and write in English
- •Concurrent participation in weekly, group-based psychosocial or mind-body programs
- •Serious mental illness (by medical record and/or self-report) as defined by history of suicidality, psychosis, and/or psychiatric hospitalization in the past year.
- •Inability to travel to necessary study visits
- •No e-mail address to access online assessments
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Acceptability
Time Frame: During intervention group sessions (approximately 2 months)
The primary metric for assessing Acceptability will be a five-item, investigator developed self-report questionnaire. Following each study session, participants will be asked to rate (1=not at all to 5=very much) the enjoyableness, convenience, helpfulness, relevancy, odds of future use, and overall satisfaction of the session.
Feasibility (i.e., retention at initial follow-up assessment)
Time Frame: Through study completion (approximately 5 months)
The primary metric for assessing Feasibility will be retention at the initial follow-up assessment. Reasons for ineligibility, refusal, or dropping out will be measured.
Secondary Outcomes
- Fear of Cancer Recurrence(Baseline, 8 weeks (Post-intervention), 1 month follow-up, 3 months follow-up)