Early Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Prevention of Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Mindfulness based stress reduction.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cancer, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. 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
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- 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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Overview
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if early provision of mindfulness based cognitive therapy can prevent psychological distress in adult patients with cancer one year after diagnosis. Researchers will compare mindfulness based cognitive therapy to usual care to see if psychological distress is lower in patients that followed mindfulness. Participants will follow 8 weekly sessions of mindfulness and fill in questionnaires.
Interventions
- Behavioral Mindfulness based stress reduction
8 weekly sessions of 2.5 hour per session, face-to-face in a group consisting of maximum 15 participants, supervised by a certified mindfulness trainer
Primary outcome measures
- Psychological distress [Time frame: From enrollment to 2 years after diagnosis]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Diagnosed with urological cancer or breast cancer
- <6 weeks since cancer diagnosis
- Planned curative treatment or palliative treatment with life expectation >1 year
- Good proficiency in Dutch language
Exclusion criteria
- Serious psychiatric history or current psychiatric treatment (interfering with study participation): 1) current suicidal ideation, 2) current psychosis or bipolar disorder, 3) psychosis or bipolar disorder in history
- Unable to understand study procedure
- A priori unable to be available for 8 week MBCT
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07124481 · 2306