Breast cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Problem solving therapy
Sponsors
Osaka University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients diagnosed as breast cancer clinically, histologically, or pathologically 2. Patients who has received the adjuvant chemotherapy or the adjuvant hormon therapy after operation or who has received the neo-adjuvant chemotherapy before operation 3. Patients who has explained about their diagonosis 4. Age older than 20 years and younger 70 years 5. ECOG PS was 0 or 1, and has abillity to go to the hospital and to do slightl physical activity 6. Patients who has met with following criterion based on "Distress and Impact Thermometer": Distress score was above 3 and Impact score was above 1.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients diagnosed that the psychiatric treatment will be necessary by phsician, such as depressive disorder with suicidal thoughts or wishes. 2. Patients with evidence of cognitive impairment such as dementia and delirium or mental illness such as schizophrenia 3. Patients who take parmacotherapy by antipsychotics 4. Patients with evidence of cognitive function impairment 5. Patients with difficulty literacy of Japanese
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Japanese version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Japanese version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS) 2. EORTC-QLQ-C30 3.Brief Cancer-related Worry Inventory 4. The short-form Supportive Care Needs Survey(SCNS-SF34) 5. Self-efficacy Scale for advanced cancer 6. Mental adjustment to Cancer Scale (MAC) 7. The Concerns About Recurrence Scale (CARS) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactKei Hirai
Graduate School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Department of Complementalry and Alternative Medicine
Outcome results
None listed