Empowerment Program for Cancer Survivors

Sinem Ocalan

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cancer Survivors

Treatments: Other: Empowerment program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05768984

KA-22037

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to decrease cancer survivors' intrusive ruminative thoughts and cancer-related fatigue and increase their purposive ruminative thoughts and psychological resilience. In this context, an online (Zoom) 10-session empowerment program based on the literature will be implemented for cancer survivors.

Full description

From the time they were diagnosed with cancer, individuals struggle with ruminative thoughts about why they have this disease, whether they will get better during the treatment process, whether the disease will recur in the future, and cognitive, physical, and emotional fatigue, the cause of which cannot be fully explained. All these processes continue to negatively affect the lives of cancer survivors during the remission period. Studies show that when cancer survivors manage this stressful process well and learn effective coping methods, they can come out of it by developing their psychological resilience. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of an empowerment program to be applied to cancer survivors' ruminative thoughts, cancer-related fatigue, and psychological resilience.

The hypotheses of this research are:

H 1-1: There is a difference between ruminative thinking scores at the end of the empowerment program applied to individuals with cancer in remission and in the follow-up measurement compared to the pre-program and control groups.

H 1-2: There is a difference between cancer-related fatigue scores at the end of the empowerment program applied to individuals with cancer in remission and in the follow-up measurement compared to the pre-program and control groups.

H 1-3: There is a difference between psychological resilience scores at the end of the empowerment program applied to individuals with cancer in remission and in the follow-up measurement compared to the pre-program and control groups.

Enrollment: 62 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• Being between the ages of 18-65,
• To have knowledge of reading and writing in Turkish,
• Being in remission
• To have technical equipment (camera, microphone, computer) and usage knowledge to participate in the online group session

Exclusion criteria

• To have received psychological support in the last year

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Empowerment program will be implemented.

Treatment:

Other: Empowerment program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No program will be implemented.