Clinical trial · Interventional
Understanding Shared Psychobiological Pathways
Understanding Shared Psychobiological Pathways--Project 4. Psychobiological Pathways: Breast Cancer Interventions
NCT00245219CI-TRIAL-00074348completedN/AResults postedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The present study sought to investigate the efficacy of two psychosocial interventions for breast cancer patients, a peer support intervention and an education intervention. The present study also sought to identify mechanisms underlying the benefits of these interventions, and to determine if the efficacy of these interventions is moderated by cancer severity.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Neoplasms | Breast Neoplasm | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.98 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Peer support | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (3)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Health Tracking (control)
- description
- Participants assigned to the health-tracking condition received usual care and did not attend any meetings.
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Peer support
- description
- The peer support group meetings focused on fostering purpose in life by providing participants with opportunities to support and care for one another. Patients completed a weekly diary of critical experiences or current life problems as homework, and were then encouraged to share these experiences in the group meetings. The group facilitator encouraged participants to help one another with these issues, and share how they had dealt with similar problems.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Peer support
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Education
- description
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 26 Years
- Maximum age
- 78 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Eligible participants were: 1. English speaking women, 2. 25 years of age or older, 3. Living within a 60 mile radius of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 4. either: a first time diagnosis of stage I or II breast cancer or if they had received an initial diagnosis of stage IV cancer or a distant recurrence of breast cancer, 5. Patients with early stage cancer must have been diagnosed within the past 6 months, 6. There was no window for enrollment for patients with late stage cancer.
References
Publications (2)
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- BACKGROUNDAndresen EM, Malmgren JA, Carter WB, Patrick DL. Screening for depression in well older adults: evaluation of a short form of the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale). Am J Prev Med. 1994 Mar-Apr;10(2):77-84. PMID 8037935