NCT02593422

Writing About Experiences With Ovarian Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 73 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Maryland, College Park · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This online study aims to understand whether writing about one's experiences with ovarian cancer may be beneficial for psychological and physical wellbeing in women with a history of ovarian cancer. Investigators are also interested in studying how certain individual characteristics may impact the effectiveness of writing. Participants will be asked to complete an initial survey (15 min), followed by writing about their experiences with ovarian cancer on four occasions (20 - 25 min each), over the course of two weeks. A final survey (10 min) will be completed one month afterwards.

Detailed description

The purpose of this randomized controlled experiment is to examine the effects of writing about experiences with ovarian cancer on psychological and physical outcomes in English-speaking women with a history of ovarian cancer. It will also examine how certain individual characteristics may impact the effectiveness of the writing interventions for different women. After completing an initial survey, women will be asked to write about their experiences with ovarian cancer on 4 separate occasions of 20-25 min each in the course of 2 weeks. A final survey will be completed one month after the last writing session. The entire study will be conducted online.

Conditions

• Ovarian Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Expressive Writing	Participants will be asked to write about their deepest thoughts and emotions about their experience with ovarian cancer
BEHAVIORAL	Fact Writing (Control)	Participants will be asked to write about the facts of their experience with ovarian cancer

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2015-11-02
• Last updated: 2022-05-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States