NCT05138510

Sexual Health in Breast Cancer Patients

Sexuality and Breast Cancer: Developing Appropriate Education for Women Going Through Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 93 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In the present study, we propose a mixed methods approach to characterize and address the sexual health needs among women with breast cancer at the time of diagnosis and throughout treatment.

Detailed description

In the present study, we propose a mixed methods approach to characterize and address the sexual health needs among women with breast cancer at the time of diagnosis and throughout treatment. The objectives are as follows: 1. To characterize the sexual well-being of women longitudinally throughout the continuum of care, from initial diagnosis into survivorship. We predict that treatment will adversely affect sexual well-being, and that patient factors, clinical factors, and treatment choices will influence changes in sexual well-being. 2. To identify gaps is sexual health education provided at the time of diagnosis or during treatment and to determine the appropriate timing of sexual health education delivery.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Focus Group	Providers with extensive training and expertise in the subject will lead the virtual focus groups over Zoom using a semi-structured guide. Topics will focus on education received from the health care team, information received from outside sources, and patient recommendations on the type and timing of information preferred. We will create an analytic report based on the focus group findings, which will be used to inform the development of educational material. Sexual well-being is currently measured longitudinally on a 0-100 point scale as a component of a validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) survey (BREAST-Q) distributed to all breast cancer patients. These scores will be analyzed in patients with and without educational interventions for comparison.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-01
• Primary completion: 2025-10-23
• Completion: 2025-10-23
• First posted: 2021-12-01
• Last updated: 2026-01-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States