NCT07147205

Evaluation of Meaning-centered Group Psychotherapy in Integrative Medicine

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (estimated)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To learn more about your experience participating in a virtual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy group.

Detailed description

Primary Objectives The objectives are to describe the characteristics and outcomes of participants who attend at least one session of MCGP: 1. Describe demographic, clinical characteristics, reasons for referral, and IMC utilization data for participants who attend MCGP. 2. Examine anxiety, depression, quality of life, meaning in life, and fear of cancer recurrence before and after participation in MCGP. 3. Describe satisfaction and qualitative feedback from group participants, including perceived effectiveness and outcomes, experiences participating in the group virtually, and reactions to specific elements of the therapy modified for cancer survivors, length of group (90 minutes), and the nature of a closed group within the IMC. Secondary Objectives 4. Examine whether demographic, clinical, or symptoms-based (pre) measures are associated with number of MCGP sessions attended. 5. Examine whether number of sessions attended is associated with change in outcome measures.

Conditions

• Psychotherapy
• Integrative Medicine

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Therapy	MCGP will be delivered in 8 weekly sessions for 90 minutes over Zoom by a licensed doctoral level psychologist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-10-03
• Primary completion: 2027-02-01
• Completion: 2029-02-01
• First posted: 2025-08-29
• Last updated: 2026-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States