Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Interventions on Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment for Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Alexandria University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mental Health, Cognitive Impairment,Colorectal Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05741255

1322023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study aims to:

Determine the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy-based interventions on mental health and cognitive impairment for patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

Research Hypothesis:

Cancer patients who receive acceptance and commitment therapy-based interventions will exhibit better mental health and lower cognitive impairments than those who didn't receive it.

Full description

6. Patients' medical charts in the unit will be reviewed to identify those who meet the inclusion criteria. Patients who meet the predetermined inclusion criteria will be randomly recruited in the study. After random sampling and dividing patients into two groups of study and control. Patients from the study and control groups will be interviewed individually by the researcher to apply the study tools. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will be carried out for patients in the study group while those in the control group will be left without any intervention to undergo the usual unit routine care.

7. The researcher was undergoing a period of training on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) through online academic training at Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) for 8 weeks with 16 credits hours'certificate by (Harris, 2015). Before embarking on the actual study, the researcher passed through independent teaching about acceptance and commitment therapy under the direction, guidance, and supervision of the thesis supervisors. This included a discussion of the theoretical foundation of ACT as well as the accuracy and appropriateness of the exercises used and needed for each session.

8. The therapy consisted of six sessions, each session of acceptance and commitment therapy was developed based on general and specific objectives. An expert professor in the nursing education field revised the ACT sessions' overall objectives and the specific ones. The overall objectives of each session and the content of the sessions were translated into Arabic.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Are not participating in any type of psychotherapy, score high in the cognitive impairment questionnaire.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

STUDY GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

After random sampling and dividing patients into two groups of study and control. Patients from the study and control groups will be interviewed individually by the researcher to apply the study tools. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will be carried out for patients in the study group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Those in the control group will be left without any intervention to undergo the usual unit routine care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy