It is hypothesized that the treatment group will show greater improvements in quality of life and mood disturbance compared to the control group and that greater levels of engagement with the intervention materials will be associated with greater improvements in mood and quality of life.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
Condition (as posted)
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Confidence
Cancer Survivors With Clinically Significant Distress
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Interventions
Interventions (1)
Intervention
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online social-networking intervention
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Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
type
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
label
Social-networking intervention
description
Individuals interested in participating in the study will be randomized to receive access to a 12-week internet-based treatment group. Subjects assigned to the treatment group will have access to a group discussion board, a structured 12-week coping-skills training course, professional facilitation of the group, a real-time chat board, and personal profiles established by other group members. Subjects will be asked to complete online self-report measures of distress, mood disturbance, and quality of life at baseline and again after participation in the 12-week group.
interventionNames
Behavioral: online social-networking intervention
type
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
label
Control group
description
12 week wait-list control subjects will be able to join a group after they complete the 12-week assessment and will be asked to complete a 24-week assessment in order to measure change over time. Subjects will have access to a group discussion board, a structured 12-week coping-skills training course, professional facilitation of the group, a real-time chat board, and personal profiles established by other group members. Subjects will be asked to complete online self-report measures of distress, mood disturbance, and quality of life at baseline and again after participation in the 12-week group.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
Sex
All
Minimum age
18 Years
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Inclusion Criteria:
1. at least 18 years of age,
2. previous cancer diagnosis other than non-melanoma skin cancer,
4\) fluent in English, 5) routine access to the Internet, and 6) presence of greater than mild distress as identified by having distress greater than or equal to 4 on initial screening with the Distress Thermometer
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interventionNames
Behavioral: online social-networking intervention
Primary outcomes (3)
measure
Change in -Overall Psychological Functioning (OQ-45)
timeFrame
3-month change
description
The OQ-45 measures the global functioning of a client and is composed of 3 subscales that measure subjective discomfort (intrapsychic functioning), interpersonal relationships, and social role performance. The OQ-45 has adequate internal consistency (a = .93) and reliability (r = .84) (Lambert, et al., 2004).
measure
Change in-Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depress (CES-D) scale
timeFrame
3-month change
description
The CES-D is a self-report measure that consists of 20 items rated on a 4-point Likert scale to assess depressive symptoms experienced in the previous week. The CES-D has demonstrated excellent reliability and validity (Radloff, 1977). The standard cutoff score of 16 will be used to identify depression.
measure
Anxiety
timeFrame
3-month change
description
Anxiety subscale of the brief Profile of Mood States (b-POMS; Shacham, 1983), which utilizes 37 descriptive mood adjectives to describe how a participant felt during the past week on a 5-point Likert scale. Specifically look at anxiety (anx subscale of POMS), vigor (subscale of POMS), and fatigue (subscale of POMS).
Secondary outcomes (2)
measure
Fatigue
timeFrame
3-month change
description
Fatigue subscale of the Profile of Mood States questionnaire
measure
Vigor
timeFrame
3-month change
description
Vigor subscale of the Profile of Mood States questionnaire.
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