This pilot clinical trial studies how well web-based coping and communication skills intervention works in improving psychological adaptation in patients with gynecological cancer. Web-based intervention, such as coping and communication skills intervention, may help doctors to get a better understanding of ways to help gynecological cancer patients cope with their cancer experience.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To examine the feasibility and acceptability of an online coping and communication skills intervention (CCI). II. To collect pilot data on the impact of online CCI on global and cancer-specific distress. OUTLINE: Patients complete 3 modules of online CCI intervention. After completion of study, patients are followed up at 2 months.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Receive CCI intervention
Ancillary studies
Ancillary studies
Ancillary studies
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Examine feasibility of an online CCI as defined by participant's evaluation of the online intervention
Will define feasibility/acceptability as participant's evaluation of the online intervention using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Will summarize participant?s feedback by their overall impressions, the ease of use, how much the web intervention kept their attention, how much they liked the program, feedback about how the program looked, suggestions on how to improve the look, their satisfaction with the program and why, how useful they found the program and why, how easy the information was to understand and why, to what degree they think it would make them more confident in coping with cancer, what the most and least helpful components of the program were, what aspects if any were confusing, evaluation of places where navigation were unclear, and anything they would like to add to the program.
Time frame: Up to 2 months
Changes in psychological adaptation- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Pre-post changes in the(BDI) scales will be examined. BDI has 21 items and scores range 0-63
Time frame: Baseline up to 2 months
Changes in psychological adaptation-Mental Health Inventory (MHI)
Pre-post changes in the (MHI) scales will be examined t-tests. 38-item MHI measure used
Time frame: Baseline up to 2 months
Changes in psychological coping
Pre-post changes in the Impact of Event Scale (IES) scales will be examined using t-tests.
Time frame: Baseline up to 2 months
Examine acceptability of an online CCI
Will define acceptability as participant's evaluation of the online intervention using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Will summarize participant?s feedback by their overall impressions, the ease of use, how much the web intervention kept their attention, how much they liked the program, feedback about how the program looked, suggestions on how to improve the look, their satisfaction with the program and why, how useful they found the program and why, how easy the information was to understand and why, to what degree they think it would make them more confident in coping with cancer, what the most and least helpful components of the program were, what aspects if any were confusing, evaluation of places where navigation were unclear, and anything they would like to add to the program.
Time frame: Up to 2 months
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