NCT06546787

The Effect of Interpersonal Relationships Psychotherapy on Breast Cancer Patients

The Effect of Interpersonal Relationships Psychotherapy on Depression, Emotion Regulation and Social Support Levels in Breast Cancer Patients With Depression Risk: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Koç University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is planned to examine the effect of Interpersonal Relationship Psychotherapy on depression, interpersonal emotion regulation and multidimensional perceived social support levels of breast cancer patients with depression risk.

Detailed description

There are not enough studies showing the effect of IPT, which is an evidence-based psychotherapy that works on problem areas such as role change that may occur with the disease and provides support for recognizing and using social support mechanisms, on cancer patients. This study is thought to make a significant contribution to the literature, especially in terms of making family support, which has an important place in social support systems, available to patients, intervening in interpersonal emotion regulation problems that may occur in patients and affecting depression levels.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer Patients Diagnosed

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	PSYCHOTHERAPY	IPT, was prepared by the researcher who completed the interpersonal relations psychotherapy training.The first interview will be conducted face-to-face in the offices of Koç University Faculty of Nursing. Subsequent sessions will be conducted via Zoom according to the availability of the patients included in the study. The day and time of the interviews will be planned according to the availability of the patients before the interviews. A total of 12 interviews are planned to be conducted with a patient for 40-60 minutes each. Interview intervals will be organized as once a week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-15
• Primary completion: 2025-06-01
• Completion: 2025-07-01
• First posted: 2024-08-09
• Last updated: 2025-09-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)