Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Combined Psychological Resilience and Self-efficacy Intervention for Improving Resilience and Self-efficacy and Reducing Anxiety and Depression of Oesophageal Cancer Surgery Patients

Anhui Medical University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Esophageal Cancer

Treatments: Other: The combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention; Other: The mindfulness intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06484842

83242327

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of the combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention in oesophageal cancer surgery patients. The main question it aims to answer is:

Is the combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention program more effective than the single psychological resilience intervention in improving psychological resilience and self-efficacy and reducing anxiety and depression in patients undergoing oesophageal cancer surgery? Researchers will compare the combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention program to the single psychological resilience intervention and routine care to see if the combined intervention can improve psychological resilience and self-efficacy and reduce anxiety and depression in oesophageal cancer surgery patients.

Participants will receive the combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention program in the combined intervention group, the single psychological resilience intervention in the single intervention group and routine care in the control group.

Enrollment: 123 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with oesophageal cancer by pathological biopsy.
• Received surgical treatment.
• Native Chinese speakers and age≥18 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• Prior to or during the first evaluation, patients who had end-stage illnesses or other chronic ailments including kidney failure, heart failure, etc..
• Undergoing further supplementary therapies such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
• Undergoing other systematic psychological therapies.
• Possess a background of psychopathy or cognitive problems.
• Patients' baseline anxiety and depression subscale scores are less than 8 points each.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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123 participants in 3 patient groups

The combined intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The combined intervention group will receive the combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention.

Treatment:

Other: The combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention

The single intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The single intervention group will receive the mindfulness intervention.

Treatment:

Other: The mindfulness intervention

The control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive routine care. Routine care mainly includes postoperative precautions, management of postoperative complications, and postoperative dietary care such as the type, time, and amount of food required, etc. In addition, we will add the patients' WeChat and send relevant health knowledge to the patients regularly. The control group theoretically will not receive any additional psychological interventions. However, they will be entitled to receive either the combined psychological resilience and self-efficacy intervention or the psychological resilience intervention once the combined and single intervention groups have completed the intervention.