NCT04625439

Personality and Cancer Care Study

Personality and Cancer Care Study: Examining the Effects of a Personality Feedback Intervention in Adults With Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 419 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tulane University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized clinical trial will test whether giving an individualized personality feedback report to adults with a history of cancer can improve their self-awareness, confidence in managing their illness, and mood.

Detailed description

This will be a randomized clinical trial examining whether a personality feedback intervention can improve three outcomes in an online sample of adults with cancer: 1) self-awareness, 2) self-efficacy for managing aspects of their illness, and 3) mood. The study will occur in a single 30-minute online session conducted in Qualtrics, with a pre-post randomized design. Participants will respond to a baseline survey including a measurement of the Five-Factor Personality Model and measures of the 3 outcomes of interest, followed by random assignment to either an intervention group or control group. Both groups will read a brief description of the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Those randomized to the intervention group will also receive an individualized feedback report containing their personality results on each of the five personality factors and recommendations for cancer self-management based on these results. After reading the personality information, participants will respond to the outcome measures again in a post-intervention survey. Control participants will receive their individualized personality feedback reports after the study is complete.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Personality Feedback Self-Management Intervention	The intervention is a personality feedback report that will tell participants whether they scored low (bottom third), average (middle third), or high (top third) on each of the five factor personality characteristics based on gender-matched norms. In addition to a description of general tendencies based on their level of each personality trait, the feedback will include information about how scoring in a given category may relate to an individual's cancer self-management or healthcare decision making. The feedback for each personality trait will include recommendations for how to improve key outcomes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-18
• Primary completion: 2021-02-08
• Completion: 2021-02-08
• First posted: 2020-11-12
• Last updated: 2021-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States