Examining a Common Complaint of Women Who Receive Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer- Cognitive Difficulty

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Neurocognitive Impairment, Quality of Life

In brief

This longitudinal project will investigate a common complaint of women who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer- cognitive difficulty. The relationships of fatigue, stress, and depression to cognitive difficulties will be examined. The findings should lead to interventions to decrease the effects of these problematic side effects.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01553097

Run by

Virginia Commonwealth University

People needed

51

Starts

2012-03-01

Expected to finish

2014-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-12-16

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• read and speak English
• be physically able to take the computerized test (press the keyboard space bar and numerical keys "1" and "2" without difficulty)
• have an ECOG Performance Status score < 2.154
• capable of providing informed consent.

You may not qualify if…

• psychiatric impairment, such as organic brain disorders, mental retardation, active psychoses or dissociative disorders, or unstable and/or severe depressive illness.

Where it is running

• Virnigia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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