The Effect of Cognitive Behavior Intervention on Psychological Distress of Cancer Patients and Their Family Members

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: cognitive-behavior groups

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00279474

1951CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of cognitive behavior group intervention with cancer patients and their family members. Around 80 cancer patients and their family members will participate in group intervention and will be compared with 80 controls.

Full description

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of cognitive behavior group intervention with cancer patients and their family members. Around 80 cancer patients and their family members will participate in group intervention and will be compared with 80 controls (randomized control study). Brief Symptom Inventory,Fatigue inventory, Mini Sleep Questionnaire and repression-sensitization questionnaire will be answered by the participants pre-, post-intervention and after four months.

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hebrew speaking

Exclusion criteria

• psychiatric condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)