NCT03394742

Effectiveness of Peer Support on Quality of Life in Recently Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients

Effectiveness of Peer Support on Quality of Life in Recently Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients - a Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 260 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Jyvaskyla · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study examines effectiveness of peer support of breast cancer patients. Half of the participants received peer support via telephone in addition to usual care and another half are give the usual care only.

Detailed description

Seriously sick people need social support to maintain their quality of life. Social support may be given by peers, who have experienced the same. In this study voluntary participants with recently diagnosed breast cancer were randomly allocated to intervention (N=130) or control (N=130) group. The intervention group received, in addition to usual care, peer support via telephone 1-5 times according to their own preference. The control group received usual care only. Peer support was given by volunteered breast cancer survivors who were educated for giving peer support.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Peer support	Peer support persons are breast cancer survivors, who were educated to give peer support. They contacted participants by telephone.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-30
• Completion: 2016-10-30
• First posted: 2018-01-09
• Last updated: 2018-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland