ExBRAC- Expressive Writing in Breast Cancer

Enrolling by invitation · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The study is a randomized trial designed to examine whether an "expressive writing" intervention can affect the quality of life in patients recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The method "expressive writing" consists of writing about the breast cancer or other related subjects during 20 minutes, once a week for four consecutive weeks. The impact on quality of life will be assessed by having participants complete questionnaires at three different time points during the study. The questionnaire will be developed using a clinimetric approach, based on semi-structured interviews with breast cancer patients. The themes emerging from these interviews will be used to formulate the questions. Additionally, well-known quality-of-life measurement instruments and registry data with clinically relevant information-such as tumor stage and treatment-will be incorporated.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07298980

Run by

Region Skane

People needed

272

Starts

2026-02-01

Expected to finish

2029-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Planned for surgery of breast cancer without neoadjuvant treatment

You may not qualify if…

• Not able to understand Swedish
• Previous breast cancer

Where it is running

• Department of Surgery, Hospital of Helsingborg — Helsingborg, Skåne County, Sweden

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