Mind Body Program for Fear of Recurrence

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Survivors

Treatments: Behavioral: Mind-Body Program for Fear of Recurrence

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03695406

2017P000168

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pilot feasibility study of a group-based, mind body intervention for managing stress and fear of recurrence and promoting resiliency among adult cancer survivors.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients must have a history of breast, lung, colorectal, hematologic, prostate, melanoma, or gynecological cancer (by medical record and/or self-report)
2. Completion of primary cancer treatment (radiation, surgery, and/or chemotherapy) between 3 to 30 months ago
3. Ages 18 and older (by medical record and/or self-report)

Exclusion criteria

1. Self-reported inability to speak and write in English
2. Concurrent participation in weekly, group-based psychosocial or mind-body programs
3. Serious mental illness (by medical record and/or self-report) as defined by history of suicidality, psychosis, and/or psychiatric hospitalization in the past year.
4. Inability to travel to necessary study visits
5. No e-mail address to access online assessments

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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23 participants in 1 patient group

Mind-Body Group Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mind-Body Program for Fear of Recurrence