Integrating Palliative Care Into Self-Management of Breast Cancer

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Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to test a psycho-educational intervention, Managing Cancer Care: A Personal Guide (MCC), that is intended to improve patients' knowledge of palliative care and to facilitate its timely integration into self-management of their breast cancer. The MCC will be tested with patients with Stage I-IV breast cancer at baseline, one, and three months following enrollment. The intervention group will receive the MCC, and the attention-control group will receive a symptom management toolkit. Participants' family caregivers will also be enrolled to provide information on patients' self-management. Investigators hypothesize that users of MCC, as compared to attention-control participants, will demonstrate improved knowledge, feelings, and behaviors related to self-management of their cancer care. This innovative research can help to establish palliative care as a mainstay of self-management interventions that target serious illnesses.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02148575

Run by

Yale University

People needed

109

Starts

2014-06-01

Expected to finish

2017-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-26

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Over the age of 21
• Stage I-IV breast cancer
• Live in the State of Connecticut
• Speak English
• Receiving any kind of treatment for breast cancer
• Prognosis of at least 6 months

Where it is running

• Yale-New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Yale School of Nursing — West Haven, Connecticut, United States

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