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Active Not RecruitingNCT04754412

Culturally Based Brief Expressive Writing Intervention for the Improvement of Health in Chinese Immigrant Stage 0-III Breast Cancer Survivors, Writing to Heal Study

Writing to Heal: A Culturally Based Brief Expressive Writing Intervention for Chinese Immigrant Breast Cancer Survivors

Status: Active Not Recruiting
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional
Enrollment: 256 (actual)

Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
Sex: Female
Age: 18 Years
Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This clinical trial studies the effect of a culturally based brief expressive writing intervention in improving the health of Chinese immigrant stage 0-III breast cancer survivors. Culturally based brief expressive writing interventions may help researchers learn more about the experiences of Chinese immigrant breast cancer survivors and how writing about their experiences may affect their health.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the health benefits of expressive writing compared with the control condition. II. To characterize how acculturation moderates the effects of expressive writing interventions. III. To identify mechanisms explaining the benefits of the interventions using mixed methods. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 arms. ARM I (CONTROL): Patients write about facts regarding their cancer diagnosis and treatment for 3 weekly 30-minute sessions. ARM II (SELF-REGULATION): Patients write about stress and coping, emotional disclosure, and benefit finding for 3 weekly 30-minute sessions. ARM III (SELF-CULTIVATION): Patients write about positive thoughts and feelings regarding their breast cancer experience for 3 weekly 30-minute sessions. After completion of study, patients are followed up at 6 weeks and at 6 and 12 months.

Conditions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Behavioral, Psychological or Informational Intervention	Write about stress and coping, emotional disclosure, and benefit finding
OTHER	Behavioral, Psychological or Informational Intervention	Write about positive thoughts and feelings regarding their breast cancer experience
OTHER	Best Practice	Write about facts regarding their cancer diagnosis and treatment
OTHER	Quality-of-Life Assessment	Ancillary studies
OTHER	Questionnaire Administration	Ancillary studies

Timeline

Start date: 2021-07-23
Primary completion: 2026-04-01
Completion: 2026-04-01
First posted: 2021-02-15
Last updated: 2026-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

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