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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
109
Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Yale School of Nursing
West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Knowledge of Care Options Test
Time frame: 1 month
Knowledge of Care Options Test
Time frame: 3 months
Knowledge of Care Options Test
Time frame: baseline
Control Preferences Scale
Time frame: 1 month
Medical Communication Competence Scale
Time frame: 1 month
Measurement of Transitions Scale
Time frame: 1 month
Chronic Disease Self-Efficacy Scale
Time frame: 1 month
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Time frame: 1 month
Uncertainty in Illness Scale
Time frame: 1 month
Health Care Utilization Form
Time frame: 3 months
Goals of Care Conversations Form
Time frame: 1 month
Control Preferences Scale
Time frame: 3 months
Medical Communication Competence Scale
Time frame: 3 months
Measurement of Transitions Scale
Time frame: 3 months
Chronic Disease Self-Efficacy Scale
Time frame: 3 months
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Time frame: 3 months
Uncertainty in Illness Scale
Time frame: 3 months
Goals of Care Conversations Form
Time frame: 3 months
Control Preferences Scale
Time frame: baseline
Medical Communication Competence Scale
Time frame: baseline
Measurement of Transitions Scale
Time frame: baseline
Chronic Disease Self-Efficacy Scale
Time frame: baseline
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Time frame: baseline
Uncertainty in Illness Scale
Time frame: baseline
Goals of Care Conversations Form
Time frame: baseline
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