Project Connect Online: An Internet-based Intervention for Women With Breast Cancer (PCO)

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Breast Neoplasms

Treatments

Behavioral: PCO PLUS

Behavioral: Project Connect Online

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02866994

14-001744

20155036 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

SAC110009 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized comparative effectiveness trial examines the potential psychosocial and physical health-related benefits of sharing personal websites with other women with breast cancer, as well as with family and friends (PCO PLUS condition) versus sharing with family and friends only (PCO condition) in a sample of women with metastatic breast cancer.

Enrollment

33 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

women at least 18 years of age;
first diagnosis of Stage IV breast cancer or a recurrent diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, any interval since diagnosis;
ability to complete the intervention and assessments in English; and
willingness to attend in-person PCO workshop;

Exclusion criteria

male (because men constitute less than 1% of breast cancer patients, numbers would not be sufficient for reliable analyses);
local (i.e., same breast, surgical scar, chest wall) or regional (i.e., lymph nodes) recurrent disease; and
use of a personal website to post cancer-relevant material in the past six months