Cancer-related Problem/ConditionNCT03645005
A Research Study for Latina Women After Breast Cancer Treatment
A study testing "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program) and "My Health" (health education program) in people with Cancer-related Problem/Condition and Quality of Life, run by Northwestern University at 2 sites in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a developed psychosocial eHealth intervention on the proposed primary outcomes, health-related quality of life and symptom burden, among Hispanic breast cancer survivors. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 21 years and older, women only
- Conditions the study is for
- Cancer-related Problem/Condition, Quality of Life, Stress, Emotional
- What is being tested?
- "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program) and "My Health" (health education program)
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 80 participants
- Where
- 2 sitesUnited States
- Study dates
- 25 Mar 2015to 15 May 2019
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 21 years and older
- Women only
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Female
- Diagnosis of breast cancer, non-metastatic, stage 0-IIIA; for women diagnosed with stage 0, either radiation or chemotherapy is required as an additional treatment to surgery
- Completed active treatment for breast cancer (surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, current hormonal treatment allowed)
- No current evidence of disease
- Within 3 to 24 months post-active treatment [e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or combination of the two or three]
- at least 21 years of age
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- Able to speak and read English or Spanish
- Able to provide informed consent
- Elevated score on breast cancer symptom burden and HRQoL, measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast using an established cut-off score for clinically meaningful, compromised HRQoL
- Self-identified Hispanic/Latina ethnicity.
Who cannot join
- Visual, hearing, voice, or motor impairment that would prevent completion of study procedures
- diagnosis of an unmanaged psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, dissociative disorder, or other diagnosis for which participation in this trial is either inappropriate or dangerous - this includes patients who have life-threatening illness (e.g., end-stage kidney disease) or diagnosis of a chronic disease that is associated with a major functional impairment (e.g., fibromyalgia)
- Illicit substance or alcohol dependence
- Suicidal ideation, plan, intent
- Alzheimer's, dementia or history of stroke
- Scheduled reconstruction surgery within 1 month of any study procedures or involvement.
Trial locations and contacts
2 sites in 1 country.
United States2 sites
University of Illinois Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois, 60608
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, 60611
About this study
Official title: An e-Health Intervention to Improve Symptom Burden and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Hispanic Women Completing Active Treatment for Breast Cancer
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a developed psychosocial eHealth intervention on the proposed primary outcomes, health-related quality of life and symptom burden, among Hispanic breast cancer survivors.
The intervention components include breast cancer knowledge, stress awareness and management, social support, and enhanced communication and intimacy skills. The intervention will be delivered via a Smartphone application over an 8-week period.
Participants are randomized into either an intervention application (described above) or a control application (health information and health promotion strategies). Aside from using the Smartphone application for the recommended 8 weeks, participation in this study includes three assessments: baseline (at the beginning of the research study), 6-week follow-up, and 8-week follow-up.
Read the detailed description
Among Hispanics, the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in the U.S., cancer is the leading cause of death whereas cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). Hispanics also experience substantially lower rates of 5-year cancer-specific survival relative to non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). Hispanic cancer patients in the U.S. also report significantly worse cancer-related symptom burden and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than NHWs, even after adjusting for socioeconomic factors. Despite this, very few randomized, intervention studies have specifically targeted cancer-related symptom burden and HRQOL outcomes among Hispanic women, especially during the period at the end of active treatment which is a critical period to intervene to provide skills and tools to assist with this transition. Innovative approaches to providing interventions such as Smartphone technology are especially important for this patient population. Ubiquitous Smartphone use among ethnic minorities in the US provide a unique opportunity to implement a pragmatic technology- and evidence-based psychosocial intervention that overcomes some access to care barriers as well as time and logistical constraints. Furthermore, given that Hispanics own Smartphones and seek health information online from a mobile device at similar or higher rates than other groups in the U.S., Smartphone interventions offer an opportunity to overcome obstacles to accessing resources and services that can be culturally informed and provide skills to improve symptom burden and HRQOL. This study aims to create and evaluate a culturally informed eHealth psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention for English or Spanish-speaking Hispanic women completing treatment for breast cancer. This intervention is grounded in evidence-based paradigms to improve the proposed Primary Outcomes: Cancer-Related Symptom Burden and HRQOL and the proposed Secondary Outcomes: usability and markers the intervention use. This study is designed in two-phases to develop and test a Smartphone-based intervention that can be disseminated to cancer survivors at a relatively low cost. The first phase is intended to create an eHealth intervention designed to improve cancer-related symptom burden and HRQOL. The second phase is designed as an 8-week randomized trial intended to evaluate the eHealth intervention when compared to a control condition. It is hypothesized that the eHealth intervention will significantly improve cancer-related symptom burden and HRQOL compared to the control condition.
- Being tested
- "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program), "My Health" (health education program)
- Keywords
- eHealth, Health Related Quality of Life, Symptom Burden, Breast Cancer, Hispanic
- Medical subject headings
- Stress, Psychological, Breast Neoplasms
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
"My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program)Behavioural
"My Guide" is a Smartphone application incorporating elements informed by the extant literature, designed to improve quality of life and symptom burden among Hispanic breast cancer survivors. "My Guide" components are designed to improve breast cancer knowledge, cancer-relevant self-efficacy, stress and symptom management skills, Both intervention and active comparator conditions are administered to participants for 8 weeks.
"My Health" (health education program)Behavioural
"My Health" is a health promotion Smartphone application with health education content on nutrition, and general advice on lifestyle choices and prevention. The "My Health" control content was based on similar content tested in other psychosocial interventions with cancer survivors. Both intervention and active comparator conditions are administered to participants for 8 weeks.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| My Guide (psychoeducation & self-management program) | Experimental | Not described Receives: Behavioral: "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program) |
| My Health (health education program) | Active comparator | Not described Receives: Behavioral: "My Health" (health education program) |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Health Related Quality of Life will be evaluated with The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B)
The FACT-B has been used extensively to measure HRQoL, and has been translated to and validated in Spanish. The FACT-B assesses participant's wellbeing in physical, emotional, social, functional, and breast cancer related concerns in the last seven days using a five-point response scale.
Measured: HRQoL will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial HRQoL changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional HRQoL changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Symptom Burden will be evaluated with The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial symptom questionnaire (BCPT)
The BCPT measures participants' symptom burden. The BCPT asks participants to report their level of discomfort with 25 breast cancer related symptoms during the past four weeks using a five-point response scale.
Measured: Symptom Burden will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Secondary outcomes (4)
Cancer-Specific Distress will be evaluated using The Impact of Event Scale (IES)
The IES is made up of two subscales measuring the frequency of intrusion and avoidance experiences after a stressful event. The IES has been widely used among patients diagnosed with cancer and has been translated and validated with Spanish-speaking participants.
Measured: Cancer-Specific Distress will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Breast Cancer Related Knowledge will be evaluated with the Knowledge about Breast Cancer Questionnaire
This questionnaire has been tested with Spanish-speaking Hispanic breast cancer survivors, it is made up of 16 true and false questions regarding general breast cancer knowledge.
Measured: Breast Cancer Knowledge will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Breast Cancer Related Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy will be evaluated using the Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy scale for cancer (CASE-cancer)
The CASE-cancer questionnaire is made up various subscales measuring breast cancer related communication and attitudinal self-efficacy. Each question asks participants to use a four-point response scale to agree or disagree with statements regarding their level of confidence with different skills.
Measured: Breast Cancer Related Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Stress Management Skills will be evaluated with the Brief COPE Inventory
The Brief COPE is made up of various subscales measuring different ways of coping. Each question as participants to rate how often they have used each coping mechanism in response to their breast cancer experience.
Measured: Stress Management Skills will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 Aug 2018
- Study start25 Mar 2015
- Primary completion24 Apr 2019
- Study completion15 May 2019
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Cancer-related Problem/ConditionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Northwestern UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 80 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Betina Yanez, Northwestern University
- Investigators
- Betina Yanez, Ph.D., Principal investigator, Northwestern University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03645005
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- STU00201961
- Status last verified
- Aug 2020
- First submitted
- 24 Apr 2018
- Last updated
- 13 Aug 2020
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Baik SH, Oswald LB, Buscemi J, Buitrago D, Iacobelli F, Perez-Tamayo A, Guitelman J, Penedo FJ, Yanez B. Patterns of Use of Smartphone-Based Interventions Among Latina Breast Cancer Survivors: Secondary Analysis of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Cancer. 2020 Dec 8;6(2):e17538. doi: 10.2196/17538.
PubMed 33289669
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 13 Aug 2020. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- An e-Health Intervention to Improve Symptom Burden and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Hispanic Women Completing Active Treatment for Breast Cancer
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03645005
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- STU00201961
- Keywords
- eHealth, Health Related Quality of Life, Symptom Burden, Breast Cancer, Hispanic
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 80 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Northwestern UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 25 Mar 2015 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 24 Apr 2019 (actual)
- Study completion
- 15 May 2019 (actual)
- First posted
- 24 Aug 2018 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a developed psychosocial eHealth intervention on the proposed primary outcomes, health-related quality of life and symptom burden, among Hispanic breast cancer survivors.
The intervention components include breast cancer knowledge, stress awareness and management, social support, and enhanced communication and intimacy skills. The intervention will be delivered via a Smartphone application over an 8-week period.
Participants are randomized into either an intervention application (described above) or a control application (health information and health promotion strategies). Aside from using the Smartphone application for the recommended 8 weeks, participation in this study includes three assessments: baseline (at the beginning of the research study), 6-week follow-up, and 8-week follow-up.
Detailed description
Among Hispanics, the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in the U.S., cancer is the leading cause of death whereas cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). Hispanics also experience substantially lower rates of 5-year cancer-specific survival relative to non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). Hispanic cancer patients in the U.S. also report significantly worse cancer-related symptom burden and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than NHWs, even after adjusting for socioeconomic factors. Despite this, very few randomized, intervention studies have specifically targeted cancer-related symptom burden and HRQOL outcomes among Hispanic women, especially during the period at the end of active treatment which is a critical period to intervene to provide skills and tools to assist with this transition. Innovative approaches to providing interventions such as Smartphone technology are especially important for this patient population. Ubiquitous Smartphone use among ethnic minorities in the US provide a unique opportunity to implement a pragmatic technology- and evidence-based psychosocial intervention that overcomes some access to care barriers as well as time and logistical constraints. Furthermore, given that Hispanics own Smartphones and seek health information online from a mobile device at similar or higher rates than other groups in the U.S., Smartphone interventions offer an opportunity to overcome obstacles to accessing resources and services that can be culturally informed and provide skills to improve symptom burden and HRQOL. This study aims to create and evaluate a culturally informed eHealth psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention for English or Spanish-speaking Hispanic women completing treatment for breast cancer. This intervention is grounded in evidence-based paradigms to improve the proposed Primary Outcomes: Cancer-Related Symptom Burden and HRQOL and the proposed Secondary Outcomes: usability and markers the intervention use. This study is designed in two-phases to develop and test a Smartphone-based intervention that can be disseminated to cancer survivors at a relatively low cost. The first phase is intended to create an eHealth intervention designed to improve cancer-related symptom burden and HRQOL. The second phase is designed as an 8-week randomized trial intended to evaluate the eHealth intervention when compared to a control condition. It is hypothesized that the eHealth intervention will significantly improve cancer-related symptom burden and HRQOL compared to the control condition.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (participant)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| My Guide (psychoeducation & self-management program) | Experimental | Behavioral: "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program) |
| My Health (health education program) | Active comparator | Behavioral: "My Health" (health education program) |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 21 years and older
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (10 listed)
- Female
- Diagnosis of breast cancer, non-metastatic, stage 0-IIIA; for women diagnosed with stage 0, either radiation or chemotherapy is required as an additional treatment to surgery
- Completed active treatment for breast cancer (surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, current hormonal treatment allowed)
- No current evidence of disease
- Within 3 to 24 months post-active treatment [e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or combination of the two or three]
Key exclusion criteria (6 listed)
- Visual, hearing, voice, or motor impairment that would prevent completion of study procedures
- diagnosis of an unmanaged psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, dissociative disorder, or other diagnosis for which participation in this trial is either inappropriate or dangerous - this includes patients who have life-threatening illness (e.g., end-stage kidney disease) or diagnosis of a chronic disease that is associated with a major functional impairment (e.g., fibromyalgia)
- Illicit substance or alcohol dependence
- Suicidal ideation, plan, intent
- Alzheimer's, dementia or history of stroke
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program)"My Guide" is a Smartphone application incorporating elements informed by the extant literature, designed to improve quality of life and symptom burden among Hispanic breast cancer survivors. "My Guide" components are designed to improve breast cancer knowledge, cancer-relevant self-efficacy, stress and symptom management skills, Both intervention and active comparator conditions are administered to participants for 8 weeks. | Behavioural | My Guide (psychoeducation & self-management program) |
| "My Health" (health education program)"My Health" is a health promotion Smartphone application with health education content on nutrition, and general advice on lifestyle choices and prevention. The "My Health" control content was based on similar content tested in other psychosocial interventions with cancer survivors. Both intervention and active comparator conditions are administered to participants for 8 weeks. | Behavioural | My Health (health education program) |
Primary outcome
Health Related Quality of Life will be evaluated with The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B)
Time frame: HRQoL will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial HRQoL changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional HRQoL changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
The FACT-B has been used extensively to measure HRQoL, and has been translated to and validated in Spanish. The FACT-B assesses participant's wellbeing in physical, emotional, social, functional, and breast cancer related concerns in the last seven days using a five-point response scale.
Symptom Burden will be evaluated with The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial symptom questionnaire (BCPT)
Time frame: Symptom Burden will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
The BCPT measures participants' symptom burden. The BCPT asks participants to report their level of discomfort with 25 breast cancer related symptoms during the past four weeks using a five-point response scale.
4 secondary outcomes
Cancer-Specific Distress will be evaluated using The Impact of Event Scale (IES)
Time frame: Cancer-Specific Distress will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Breast Cancer Related Knowledge will be evaluated with the Knowledge about Breast Cancer Questionnaire
Time frame: Breast Cancer Knowledge will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Breast Cancer Related Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy will be evaluated using the Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy scale for cancer (CASE-cancer)
Time frame: Breast Cancer Related Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Stress Management Skills will be evaluated with the Brief COPE Inventory
Time frame: Stress Management Skills will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 13 Aug 2020.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 33289669Baik SH, Oswald LB, Buscemi J, Buitrago D, Iacobelli F, Perez-Tamayo A, Guitelman J, Penedo FJ, Yanez B. Patterns of Use of Smartphone-Based Interventions Among Latina Breast Cancer Survivors: Secondary Analysis of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Cancer. 2020 Dec 8;6(2):e17538. doi: 10.2196/17538.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Betina Yanez, Ph.D. principal investigator
Northwestern University
2 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing "My Guide" (psychoeducation & self-management program) and "My Health" (health education program) in people with Cancer-related Problem/Condition and Quality of Life, run by Northwestern University at 2 sites in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 13 Aug 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 2 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Health Related Quality of Life will be evaluated with The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) (time frame: HRQoL will be first assessed at baseline (T1), initial HRQoL changes will be assessed at 6 weeks post-baseline (T2), and finally any additional HRQoL changes will be captured 8 weeks post-baseline (T3)). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03645005, which also lists 1 linked publication.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 13 Aug 2020.