Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion-Based Virtual Group Therapy to Improve Psychological Wellbeing in Patients With Cancer
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Behavioral Intervention: Group Therapy Session, Survey Administration.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hematopoietic and Lymphoid System Neoplasm, Malignant Solid Neoplasm. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
"Live Fully With Cancer": Assessing the Impact of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion-Based Virtual Group Intervention for Diverse Cancer Patients
Overview
This clinical trial tests how well acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion based virtual group therapy works to improve psychological wellbeing, such as compassion, understanding, and flexibility, in patients with cancer. Receiving a cancer diagnosis, undergoing cancer treatment, and living with cancer- or treatment-related symptoms have often been found to be associated with elevated distress and decreased quality of life for individuals, even when the disease is stable or in remission. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has demonstrated considerable benefits on individuals' quality of life, psychological flexibility, and amelioration of psychological distress following a cancer diagnosis and in the face of uncertainty, loss, and challenges associated with cancer.
Detailed description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To assess if participants perceive compassion and understanding by the provider who facilitates the virtual group intervention.
II. To assess if participation in the ACT-based group intervention is associated with increases in patients' self-reported psychological flexibility as well as amelioration in psychological and physical distress.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To assess if participation in the ACT-based group intervention is associated with increases in patients' self-reported mindfulness, self-compassion, meaning and purpose, and posttraumatic growth.
OUTLINE:
Patients attend acceptance and commitment virtual group therapy sessions over 1.5 hours each, once a week for 6 weeks.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 1 month.
Interventions
- Behavioral Behavioral Intervention: Group Therapy Session
Attend virtual group therapy sessions - Other Survey Administration
Ancillary study
Primary outcome measures
- Participant perceived compassion and understanding by the group therapy provider - SCQ [Time frame: From baseline to 1 month post session 6]
- Patients' self-reported psychological flexibility - COMPACT-15 [Time frame: From baseline to 1 month post session 6]
- Patients' self-reported psychological flexibility - Psy-Flex [Time frame: From baseline to 1 month post session 6]
- Physician and psychological distress - PROMIS-29 [Time frame: From baseline to 1 month post session 6]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Self reported mindfulness [Time frame: Baseline; 1 month post session 6 (not assessed at mid-group to reduce patient survey burden)]
- Self-compassion [Time frame: Baseline; 1 month post session 6 (not assessed at mid-group to reduce patient survey burden)]
- Meaning and purpose [Time frame: Baseline; 1 month post session 6 (not assessed at mid-group to reduce patient survey burden)]
- Posttraumatic growth [Time frame: Baseline; 1 month post session 6 (not assessed at mid-group to reduce patient survey burden)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Being an adult (18 years or older)
- Being a patient of Mayo Clinic Arizona
- Having a cancer diagnosis, having treatment planning in progress, undergoing cancer-related treatment, or having completed cancer within the past 2 years (in recent survivorship
- Experiencing stress or challenges related to cancer and having treatment goals that align with the purpose of the group
- Having self reported proficiency to read/write/speak English
- Expressing interest and commitment to attend all six virtual group sessions
Exclusion criteria
- Patients' inability to take part in and benefit from the virtual group therapy based on clinical judgment of the psychosocial oncology team member who completes the psychosocial evaluation, which may include having active suicidal or homicidal intent, experiencing uncontrolled psychotic symptoms, having untreated personality disorder/characteristics that are likely disturbing in a group setting, and/or having moderate to severe cognitive impairments
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Mayo Clinic in Arizona — Scottsdale
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06246955 · 23-005161 · NCI-2024-00399 · 23-005161