Pain Coping Skills for Colorectal Cancer Survivors
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Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer
In brief
Colorectal cancer survivors experience long-term negative physical and psychosocial consequences of their disease. There is a critical need to develop novel behavioral interventions for improving colorectal cancer survivor outcomes. The investigators have developed a pain management intervention for colorectal cancer survivors that focuses on addressing both pain and psychological distress. Colorectal cancer survivors who endorse pain and comorbid psychological distress as a concern during a clinic-based survivorship care consult will be recruited. Participants will be randomized into either: Telephone-Based Coping Skills Training (CST) for pain and comorbid psychological distress or standard care. The CST condition will receive 5 sessions of a cognitive behavior theory-based protocol that teaches coping skills (e.g., relaxation, activity pacing/planning, cognitive restructuring) relevant to managing pain and psychological distress. The standard care control condition will receive resources and referrals related to managing survivorship health.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02706301
- Run by
- Duke University
- People needed
- 29
- Starts
- 2016-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-01-17
Who can join
Age: 21 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- >21 years old
- personal history of colorectal cancer
- finished active cancer treatment within the past 12 months
- reported pain as a concern as well as psychological distress on a National Comprehensive Cancer Network screener
- able to speak and read English
- able and willing to give informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- currently undergoing active cancer treatment
- have a major mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia)
- have a mental illness that is not being treated/controlled (e.g., bipolar disorder)
Where it is running
- Duke Cancer Institute — Durham, North Carolina, United States
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