Relational and Emotional Mechanisms of a Supportive-expressive Group Intervention in Breast Cancer (BC-SEGT)

Universidade do Porto

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Breast Neoplasms

Treatments: Other: Supportive-expressive group therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02934815

FPCEUP/BreastCancerCare

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the feasibility of supportive-expressive group intervention (SEGT) for women with primary breast cancer and to provide a preliminary test of its efficacy.

Full description

This study aims to compare the efficacy of a 16-sessions group intervention (Supportive-Expressive group therapy) versus control group (no intervention) in women with primary breast cancer.

This study tries to evaluate the efficacy of SEGT on breast cancer patients' emotion regulation, social support, caregiving, and marital satisfaction, and its improvement on breast cancer patients' life quality. This study also intents to explore the moderating role of attachment on these associations.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of primary breast cancer

Exclusion criteria

• attendance at a cancer support group or individual psychotherapy
• diagnosis of recurrent breast cancer
• severe psychiatric disorder
• history of drug or alcohol abuse

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group - SEGT

Experimental group

Description:

16 weekly sessions, 90 min of Supportive-expressive group therapy

Treatment:

Other: Supportive-expressive group therapy

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention