Early Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Prevention of Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients (EarlyMind)

Isala

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy; Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness based stress reduction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07124481

2306

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if early provision of mindfulness based cognitive therapy can prevent psychological distress in adult patients with cancer one year after diagnosis.

Researchers will compare mindfulness based cognitive therapy to usual care to see if psychological distress is lower in patients that followed mindfulness.

Participants will follow 8 weekly sessions of mindfulness and fill in questionnaires.

Enrollment: 208 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with urological cancer or breast cancer
• <6 weeks since cancer diagnosis
• Planned curative treatment or palliative treatment with life expectation >1 year
• Good proficiency in Dutch language

Exclusion criteria

• Serious psychiatric history or current psychiatric treatment (interfering with study participation): 1) current suicidal ideation, 2) current psychosis or bipolar disorder, 3) psychosis or bipolar disorder in history
• Unable to understand study procedure
• A priori unable to be available for 8 week MBCT

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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208 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

mindfulness based stress reduction

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness based stress reduction

Control

No Intervention group