The Effect of Interpersonal Relationships Psychotherapy on Breast Cancer Patients

Koç University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Breast Cancer Patients Diagnosed

Treatments: Other: PSYCHOTHERAPY

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06546787

0036315

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is planned to examine the effect of Interpersonal Relationship Psychotherapy on depression, interpersonal emotion regulation and multidimensional perceived social support levels of breast cancer patients with depression risk.

Full description

There are not enough studies showing the effect of IPT, which is an evidence-based psychotherapy that works on problem areas such as role change that may occur with the disease and provides support for recognizing and using social support mechanisms, on cancer patients. This study is thought to make a significant contribution to the literature, especially in terms of making family support, which has an important place in social support systems, available to patients, intervening in interpersonal emotion regulation problems that may occur in patients and affecting depression levels.

Enrollment: 42 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Includes Criteria

• Ability to communicate in Turkish
• Diagnosed with Stage-II and Stage-III breast cancer
• Continuing outpatient treatment
• Four points on the Primary Care Depression Screening Scale
• Internet connection
• Has a phone that can use the zoom app to continue conversations to be
• To be able to use the Zoom app

Exclusion Criteria

• Being a pediatric oncology/hematology patient
• Diagnosed with stage -IV breast cancer
• Taking psychopharmacological medication
• To have received KIPT within the last year

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychotherapy

Experimental group

Description:

IPT will be administered by the researcher who has completed the interpersonal relations psychotherapy training.

Treatment:

Other: PSYCHOTHERAPY

Observation

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in the control group will be asked to complete the post-tests at the same time after the experimental group interviews are completed. However, no intervention will be made to the control group.