Study to Assess the Impact of Personalized Coaching on the Time Period and Quality of Return to Work After Breast Cancer (OPTICOACH)

Institut Curie

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Surgery

Treatments: Other: Coaching sessions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04469205

IC 2017-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate the impact of coaching sessions on the return to work rate (number of patients returning at work / total number of patients per arm) 6 months after inclusion in the study for breast cancer in professionnally active patients.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Any patient active at the time of the diagnosis of breast cancer, treated consecutively at the Institut Curie during the study period, and whose first treatment will be surgery, will be offered participation in the study.

1. Invasive non-metastatic breast cancer, treated first by surgery
2. Age ≥ 18 and ≤ 60 years
3. Active woman at the time of diagnosis
4. Patient with internet access and email address
5. Patient affiliated with a social security scheme, speaking and reading French
6. Signature of informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. In situ breast cancer
2. History of breast cancer
3. Metastatic breast cancer
4. Inflammatory Breast Cancer
5. Woman with a life expectancy <6 months at the time of diagnosis (in relation to other serious chronic diseases)
6. Persons deprived of liberty or under guardianship
7. Impossibility to submit to the medical follow-up of the test for geographical, social or psychological reasons

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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69 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

intervention group that will receive return-to-work coaching sessions. The intervention consists of 3 individual coaching sessions with a certified professional coach. This personalized accompaniment will complete the standard accompaniment offered to all patients.

Treatment:

Other: Coaching sessions

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

control group who will receive the current care which consists of a psychosocial care. This care consists in offering the patient regular information meetings organized with social workers of the Health Insurance, to consult a psychologist and to access patients' homes at the frequency of their choice and according to their need.