Clinical trial · Interventional
Integrating Palliative Care Into Self-Management of Breast Cancer
- 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 purpose of this study is to test a psycho-educational intervention, Managing Cancer Care: A Personal Guide (MCC), that is intended to improve patients' knowledge of palliative care and to facilitate its timely integration into self-management of their breast cancer. The MCC will be tested with patients with Stage I-IV breast cancer at baseline, one, and three months following enrollment. The intervention group will receive the MCC, and the attention-control group will receive a symptom management toolkit. Participants' family caregivers will also be enrolled to provide information on patients' self-management. Investigators hypothesize that users of MCC, as compared to attention-control participants, will demonstrate improved knowledge, feelings, and behaviors related to self-management of their cancer care. This innovative research can help to establish palliative care as a mainstay of self-management interventions that target serious illnesses.
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 Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Management Group | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Symptom Management Group | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Self-Management Group
- description
- Managing Cancer Care: A Personal Guide (MCC) is a set of magazine-format, printed modules that includes information about key self-management topics, worksheets, "conversation starters", and targeted links to local and internet resources, among other features.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Self-Management Group
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Symptom Management Group
- description
- Participants in the Symptom Management Group will be given a symptom management toolkit that provides information on the most commonly experienced symptoms and side effects of cancer treatment, including fatigue, nausea, and sleep problems, among others. Each chapter includes information on when and why the symptom may occur, how the symptom can be managed, and when to call a provider.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Symptom Management Group
Primary outcomes (3)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 21 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Over the age of 21 * Stage I-IV breast cancer * Live in the State of Connecticut * Speak English * Receiving any kind of treatment for breast cancer * Prognosis of at least 6 months
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDSchulman-Green D, Linsky S, Jeon S, Kapo J, Blatt L, Chagpar A. Integrating palliative care into self-management of breast cancer: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2016 May;48:133-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2016.04.009. Epub 2016 Apr 20. PMID 27107680