Counselling to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms in women with a new diagnosis of gynaecological cancer.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000181606

Enrollment

200

Registered

2005-08-19

Start date

2004-03-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

The intervention consists of three Solution Focused Therapy counselling sessions conducted by a research nurse immediately post operatively. Follow up consists of 6 weeks and 4 month questionnaires (HADS, SWLS, Brief COPE and Yale Brown single item tool).

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Eligible patients will have a new diagnosis of a gynaecological cancer, not had a previous diagnosis of a cancer, not had a previous or current psychiatric history and will have scored higher than 5 on HADS at enrolment.

Exclusion criteria

No exclusion criteria

Outcome results