Bone Health Management for Women Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

University of British Columbia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoporosis; Breast Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational materials/participant choice; Behavioral: Educational materials/mail

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02484131

H15-00849

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of the study protocol. The study protocol was designed to evaluate questions - "Do educational materials improve dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) screening rates for women diagnosed with breast cancer" and "Does educational materials delivered by the participant's selected choice change DXA screening rates compared to the conventional mail method?".

Full description

"Bone health management" for osteoporosis is important for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Osteoporosis can lead to bones breaking easily. Broken bones may make living independently challenging. Effective bone health management can reduce the risk of broken bones. This study will examine whether providing "osteoporosis information" to women diagnosed with breast cancer will promote their bone health management. With the current advance in technology, people are more interested in receiving information by email or smartphone text messaging. This study will also examine whether delivering osteoporosis information in different ways will change bone health management.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women
• Is 65-75 year old on July 1st, 2015
• Lives in British Columbia (BC), Canada
• Reads and understands the information provided in English
• Was diagnosed with breast cancer prior to July 1st, 2012
• Is not receiving surgery, radiation or chemotherapy for any cancers
• Has not had breast cancer spread beyond her breast(s) and nearby lymph nodes
• Has not had screening tests after July 1st, 2012
• Is not taking medications prescribed by doctors for osteoporosis

Exclusion criteria

• Is medically unfit for preventive care (death, cognitive impairment, nursing home admission, severe mental illness, etc), which will be determined by their family doctors
• Have terminated patient-doctor relationship with her family doctor who is indicated in our record

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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54 participants in 3 patient groups

Educational materials/mail

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive educational materials by mail on the first day of the follow-up period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational materials/mail

Educational materials/participant choice

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive educational materials by participant choice on the first day of the follow-up period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational materials/participant choice

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this group will not receive any educational materials during hte follow-up period. Educational materials will be sent by mail after the completion of this study.