Clinical trial · Interventional
Phase I: At-Home Support for Rural Women Using Group Video Calling
At-Home Support for Rural Women Using Group Video Calling
NCT01672684CI-TRIAL-00015856completedPhase 1ClinicalTrials.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)
This randomized phase I trial studies at-home group video calling sessions in quality of life in rural patients with breast cancer. At-home group video calling support sessions may improve the well-being and quality of life of women who have breast cancer
Conditions
Conditions (10)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Recurrent Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Stage IA Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Stage IB Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Stage II Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Stage IIIA Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Stage IIIB Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Stage IIIC Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| educational intervention | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| support group therapy | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Arm I (experimental arm)
- description
- Participants complete at-home group video calling sessions for 1 1/2 hours once weekly for 8 weeks.
- interventionNames
- Procedure: support group therapy
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Arm II (control arm)
- description
- Participants receive an educational workbook journal.
- interventionNames
- Other: educational intervention
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Feasibility of the study protocol as determined primarily through qualitative analysis of the group sessions and the interview data
- timeFrame
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 21 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * To be eligible for this study, the participant must have been diagnosed with breast cancer within the previous 5 years prior to study entry; individuals who have been diagnosed with any stage of breast cancer are eligible * There are no limitations regarding allowable type and amount of prior therapy * There are no race/ethnic restrictions * There are no life expectancy restrictions * Neither Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) nor Karnofsky performance status will be employed * There are no requirements for organ and marrow function * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document; this will be assessed in the telephone screen conducted by Lisa Frankel as she will review each section of the consent form with the participant and ask if she has any questions about it; this telephone screen will have been approved by the Stanford University Institutional Review Board (IRB), and Lisa Frankel will conduct the interviews in a private location to ensure confidentiality * Eligibility for this study requires that a woman be a resident of one of 27 rural counties in California (Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Imperial, Inyo, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, or Yuba, except we will not include women living within the following cities: Chico, Madera, Redding, Rocklin, Roseville or Yuba City, due to this study's more rural focus) * Eligibility for this study requires that a woman has sufficient hearing to be able to engage in conversation over the phone * Eligibility for this study requires that a woman has a private place available where she can access the internet * Eligibility for this study requires that a woman is potentially available to meet at the day of the week and time of the day that the group intervention is scheduled â in the event that she is randomly assigned to receive the at-home group calling intervention * Eligibility for this study requires that women have broadband or digital subscriber line (DSL) internet access * Eligibility for this study requires that women have a computer with a webcam and either a microphone or a phone available to call into the video conference Exclusion Criteria: * There are no therapy restrictions * There are no restrictions regarding use of other investigational agents * There are no exclusion requirements due to co-morbid disease or incurrent illness * Requirements regarding history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to investigational agent or device are not applicable to this study * There are no exclusion criteria relating to concomitant medications or substances that have the potential to affect the activity or pharmacokinetics of the study agent * There are no other agent-specific exclusion criteria * Pregnancy or nursing patients will not be excluded from the study * Patients who are cancer survivors or those who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive will not be excluded from the study
References
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