Clinical trial · Interventional
Online Individual Intervention Program to Make Sense of People's Experiences After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Developing an Online Individual Intervention Program to Make Sense of People's Experiences After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Examining Its Effectiveness
- 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 unexpected changes caused by the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer can lead individuals to question their beliefs, life meanings, and goals, prompting a search for meaning. According to Park and Folkman's Meaning-Making Model, the process of meaning making functions as a coping mechanism. It helps individuals adapt challenging experiences into their lives, ultimately assisting in their psychological adjustment to stressful situations. Based on this theoretical model, principles from meaning therapy literature reviews, interviews with breast cancer patients, and expert consultation, an 8-week online individual psychological intervention was developed. It was aimed at facilitating the finding of new meanings in the experience of breast cancer and promoting psychological well-being. It includes psycho-educational, cognitive, existential, and behavioral components explicitly focusing on the meaning-making process. This intervention is called the Meaning Centered Coping Program (MCCP). The main purpose of this study was to test whether the MCCP was an effective intervention program for women diagnosed with breast cancer. For this purpose, the study sample consisted of women with stage I, II, and III breast cancer. Then, participants were randomly assigned to the MCCP group and the waitlist control group. A number of reliable and valid measurement tools were used to compare the MCCP group with the waitlist control group and to examine the effect of the program. Compared with the control group, significant improvements were expected in the level of meaning in life, post-traumatic growth, situational meanings, and psychological well-being in the MCCP group.
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 (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meaning Centered Coping Program | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Online Individual Intervention Program
- description
- The online intervention program (namely, Meaning-Centered Coping Program) consists of eight individual sessions, each lasting approximately 60 min. Sessions were conducted per week.
- interventionNames
- Other: Meaning Centered Coping Program
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- No Intervention: Waitlist Control Group
- description
- A wait-list control group was used. Participants assigned to the wait-list control group did not receive the intervention immediately. After the final assessment was administered (eight weeks later since the initial assessment), they were able to participate in the same intervention program if they wanted.
Primary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Socio-demographic and Disease-Related Information Form
- timeFrame
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 65 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion criteria: * Age between 18 and 65 years * Being a woman * Being a native Turkish speaker * Diagnosed with stage I, II, or III breast cancer * Diagnosed for at least 6 months and at most 3 years * Being able to video-conference using a desktop computer, a laptop, or a tablet Exclusion criteria: * Having any psychiatric diagnosis or currently using psychiatric medication, * Currently receiving psychological support, * Having a history of cancer diagnosis * Having a diagnosis of advanced stage (stage ıv) breast cancer * Having a concurrent diagnosis of another cancer.
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