COMPASS: A Group ACT Program for Cancer Patients Treated at UCSF

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04636346

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer Center Psychosocial services (Psycho-Oncology) offers group psychoeducational and behavioral programs as part of its clinical service for cancer patients and services at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Clinical outcomes and acceptability/feasibility and implementation process data from these programs are routinely gathered in an effort to engage in continuous quality improvement for the department.

Full description

For this project, the study team is proposing to retrospectively analyze a de-identified data set of these data to report on pilot data on preliminary outcomes, acceptability and feasibility of the implementation of the COMPASS: Acting Mindfully for a Valued Life, based upon Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, an evidence-based behavioral intervention and facilitated by a licensed clinical psychologist in our department. This intervention was implemented as a series of clinical offerings for seven 7-session groups between September 2015 and October 2018 for 113 individual cancer patients and survivors. Outcomes measured include anxiety, depression, fear of recurrence, psychological flexibility, mindfulness; values based living, and quality of life. Participants completed surveys at 4 time points, pre and post, and two followup time points. Measures of demographics, satisfaction and feasibility/acceptability were also collected. Insights gathered from this study will be used to inform articles, grant applications and conference presentations on the implementation of behavioral interventions for cancer patients and survivors.

Enrollment: 129 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking
• Treated for any kind of cancer at University of California, San Francisco
• Sufficient cognitive ability to participate in group activities as determined by their attending medical oncologist or surgeon

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking
• Treated elsewhere for cancer
• Psychiatric illness that would affect the ability to participate in a group activity

Trial design

129 participants in 1 patient group

COMPASS (Psychoeducational / Behavioral Program)

Description:

Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy program as part of clinical service for cancer patients

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Other: Questionnaires