NCT01359072

Enhancing Coping Skills in Patients With Cancer

Enhancing Coping Skills in Patients With Cancer - a Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

* Approximately 30% of all patients with cancer report levels of psychological distress indicative of the need for psychological intervention. * Research suggests that learning more adaptive coping strategies improves psychological adjustment to cancer. * It is imperative to develop cost-efficient, feasible psychosocial interventions. * The aim is to test the efficacy of the self administered format of a psycho-educational intervention (NUCARE) in reducing distress and enhancing adaptive coping strategies for cancer patients. It is hypothesized that: * patients would show significant reductions in distress (i.e., depression and anxiety) over the 6-week treatment period, and that treatment would produce superior results compared to wait-list; patients would maintain or even increase their improvement up to 3 months following treatment. * the treatment would enhance more adaptive coping strategies. * greater self-reported adherence to the treatment/homework would be associated with symptom improvement, more autonomous self-regulation and higher perceived competence for adhering to the coping intervention program.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Self administered coping intervention	The self administered coping intervention (i.e. NUCARE workbook) aims to teach individuals how to cope with their cancer. The intervention embraces two major areas: (i) the enhancement of a sense of personal control; and (ii) the learning of emotional and instrumental coping responses. The approach emphasizes training in problem-solving, relaxation techniques, cognitive coping skills, goal setting, communication, social support and lifestyle factors. The didactic material of the Nucare program is comprised of a workbook containing 12 chapters addressing the above mentioned aspects.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-08-01
• Completion: 2012-08-01
• First posted: 2011-05-24
• Last updated: 2012-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada