Effects of Mindfulness Meditation and Stress Management After Breast Cancer

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Expressive writing condition; Behavioral: Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02119481

KI-MBSR-Main-BC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this study is to examine the effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction training program, delivered in individual web-based sessions, among breast cancer patients. The objectives are to study and answer questions regarding effects of the such training in a randomized controlled trial including the following outcome measures: physical and mental health status, perceived stress, post-traumatic stress symptoms, psychological well-being, and sleep quality. In addition to the primary aim, the investigators plan to explore potential mechanisms through which mindfulness training lead to improvement in perceived stress, well-being and sleep-quality. This will be studied by mediational analyses.

Enrollment: 142 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Breast cancer patient ≥ 18 years of age who has received the cancer diagnosis ≤ 2 years previously
• Access and regular use of the internet

Exclusion criteria

• Non Swedish speaking
• Previous sever psychiatric illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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142 participants in 3 patient groups

Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Experimental group

Description:

Mindfulness-based stress reduction training

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Expressive writing condition

Active Comparator group

Description:

Expressive writing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Expressive writing condition

Waiting-list control condition

No Intervention group

Description:

Waiting list