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临床试验/NCT01108016
NCT01108016已完成3 期

Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups (Main Study)

Stanford University2 个研究点 分布在 1 个国家目标入组 100 人开始时间: 2008年5月最近更新:
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试验速览

阶段
3 期
状态
已完成
入组人数
100
试验地点
2
主要终点
Intensity and frequency of posttraumatic stress symptoms in the past month as assessed by total score on the Posttraumatic Check List - Specific version (PCL-S) for breast cancer.

研究概览

简要总结

The study will answer two questions about women with breast cancer in rural communities:

  1. Will they find this support group format utilizing videoconferencing acceptable and rewarding?
  2. Will they report a greater sense of emotional and informational support, and less depression and traumatic stress, than the control groups of women who wait to participate until after the first groups have ended?

研究设计

研究类型
Interventional
分配方式
Randomized
干预模型
Crossover
盲法
None

入排标准

年龄范围
21 Years 至 —(Adult, Older Adult)
性别
Female
接受健康志愿者

入选标准

  • To be eligible to participate, a woman must meet all of the following criteria:
  • be a resident of one of nine rural counties in northeastern California (Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Shasta, Lassen, Trinity, Sierra, Nevada, and Tehama),
  • be able to travel to a rural health facility included in the Northern Sierra Rural Health Network to participate in videoconferencing meetings;
  • be able to speak and read English well enough to be able to read, discuss, and comprehend the consent form;
  • be 21 years of age or older;
  • have been diagnosed with breast cancer by a physician; and
  • who (in the judgment of the Local Coordinator) is not unduly distressed or otherwise not able to participate effectively in a support group.
  • Women will be included with any stage of breast cancer as our pilot study demonstrated that in these rural communities, women wanted to include women with any stage of breast cancer in their groups. Also, our pilot study results showed that it worked fine to include women regardless of the period elapsing since they received their diagnosis, as our pilot study results showed that some women with a long period of time elapsing since receiving their diagnosis were still in need of a source of social support for coping with having had this experience and felt that they had a lot of help to offer women who had more recently received a breast cancer diagnosis. The 9 counties were selected because they are among the most remote counties in California, yet they have strong primary care systems in place, and most patients receive specialty care in-state, as opposed to out-of-state. Every effort will be made to include women of ethnic minority groups.
  • The support group facilitator, community advisory board (CAB) members, and the local community coordinators will also be recruited for the interviews, with informed consent, identified by having played one of these roles for this study.

排除标准

  • Potential participants who do not meet all of the inclusion criteria listed above will be excluded.

结局指标

主要结局

Intensity and frequency of posttraumatic stress symptoms in the past month as assessed by total score on the Posttraumatic Check List - Specific version (PCL-S) for breast cancer.

时间窗: after 8 weeks of the immediate group sessions

Intensity and frequency of depression symptoms in the past week as assessed by total score on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D)

时间窗: after 8 weeks of the immediate group sessions

次要结局

  • Intensity and frequency of emotional control as assessed by the total score on the Courtauld Emotional Control Scale (CECS),(after 8 weeks of the immediate group sessions)
  • Level of self-efficacy for coping with breast cancer as assessed by the total score on the Cancer Behavior Inventory (CBI).(after 8 weeks of the immediate group sessions)
  • Satisfaction with social support as assessed by the total satisfaction score on the UCLA Social Support Inventory.(after 8 weeks of the immediate group sessions)

研究者

申办方类型
Other

研究点 (2)

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