Mindfulness for People With Incurable Cancer

Lancaster University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness for health

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03446092

IRASProject ID: 226702

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will investigate whether a mindfulness course can help people with incurable cancer who are seen by oncologists in a particular National Health Service Hospital Trust in the United Kingdom.

Full description

It can be hard to come to terms with living with a life limiting condition such as incurable cancer and individuals are at risk of experiencing high levels of psychological distress, which can often be overlooked when the focus is on managing physical symptoms.

Mindfulness-based interventions have been shown to be helpful in reducing distress for people with cancer generally. This pilot study will use an established mindfulness programme called mindfulness for health with people with cancer which is incurable to see if this type of intervention is acceptable and useful for this group of people.

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Deemed by the oncologist to have incurable cancer
• Patient of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
• Treated by an oncologist
• Believe they are able to commit to attending most of the mindfulness course sessions
• Oncologist assesses they are well enough to participate in the intervention

Exclusion criteria

• Having any other condition or difficulty which the medical team thinks would compromise their participation in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3 participants in 1 patient group

Mindfulness group

Experimental group

Description:

Group will receive mindfulness intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness for health