None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Clinical Trial on patient self management for women with breast cancer to enable Quality of life (QOL) and Participation. The hypothesis is that the 4 week self management intervention will show statistical differences in the mean-score of the primary outcomes in the experimental groups
Interventions
Intervention is a 4-week self management program, led by a health care professional with a group of 8-12 patients who meet face-to-face, for 1 1/2 hours a week over 4 weeks. The intervention provides didactic and interactive session using behavioral interventions that focus on managing the medical, emotional and role tasks. It involves training self-management skills -(problem solving, decision making, resource utilization, the formation of a patient-provider partnership, action planning) to en
Intervention is a 4-week self management program, led by a health care professional with a group of 8-12 patients who meet face-to-face, for 1 1/2 hours a week over 4 weeks. The intervention provides didactic and interactive session using behavioral interventions that focus on managing the medical, emotional and role tasks. It involves training self-management skills -(problem solving, decision making, resource utilization, the formation of a patient-provider partnership, action planning) to enable women to self manage the illness and to improve health behavious. The duration (wash-out period) between experimental and control is 4 weeks.
Sponsors
University Malaya
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants must be newly diagnosed up to one year period, with stage 1-3 Breast cancer and able to give consent.
Exclusion criteria
Stage 4 Breast cancer Breast cancer recurrance Cognitively unable to participate
Outcome results
None listed