This 2-arm randomized trial assessed the incremental effect of providing a lecture on Internet use followed by participation in an Internet-based peer support group following a week-long rehabilitation program, over and above any possible general effect of participation in the rehabilitation program. Primary outcome measures are adjustment to cancer and mood disturbance.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
794
The Internet peer-support groups provided a self-guided space for communication, including an Internet discussion forum, a live chat room and a personal message system. No therapeutic content or information services were offered within the groups. All Internet groups were run in a browser-based software platform with access through the website of the Danish Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.dk). All discussions were protected by a password and communication was encrypted. The Internet groups in this study were all closed peer-support groups, accessible only by an invitation received by e-mail after registration for the study. The groups were open to access 24 h a day for 13 months from their individual starting date.
Department of Psychsocial Cancer Research
Copenhagen, Denmark
Adjustment to cancer measured by the Mini-MAC scale Mood disturbance measured by POMS-SF scale
Self-rated global health
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