Internet-based Support in Cancer Rehabilitation

Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Internet-based Support in the Rehabilitation of Danish Cancer Survivors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00961610
• Other study ID #: PP-07024
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 17, 2009
• Last updated: August 18, 2009
• Start date: April 2004
• Est. completion date: December 2006

Study information

• Verified date: August 2009
• Source: Danish Cancer Society
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: The Danish National Committee on Biomedical Research Ethics
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This 2-arm randomized trial assessed the incremental effect of providing a lecture on Internet use followed by participation in an Internet-based peer support group following a week-long rehabilitation program, over and above any possible general effect of participation in the rehabilitation program.

Primary outcome measures are adjustment to cancer and mood disturbance.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 794
• Est. completion date: December 2006
• Est. primary completion date: December 2006
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Cancer survivors who were randomized for or self-selected to a rehabilitation course at the Dallund Rehabilitation Centre were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Rehabilitation course weeks in which cancer survivors over 50 years of age were targeted specifically were excluded.

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Internet peer-support group
The Internet peer-support groups provided a self-guided space for communication, including an Internet discussion forum, a live chat room and a personal message system. No therapeutic content or information services were offered within the groups. All Internet groups were run in a browser-based software platform with access through the website of the Danish Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.dk). All discussions were protected by a password and communication was encrypted. The Internet groups in this study were all closed peer-support groups, accessible only by an invitation received by e-mail after registration for the study. The groups were open to access 24 h a day for 13 months from their individual starting date.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Department of Psychsocial Cancer Research	Copenhagen

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Danish Cancer Society	IMK Almene Fond, TrygFonden, Denmark

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Adjustment to cancer measured by the Mini-MAC scale Mood disturbance measured by POMS-SF scale			No
Secondary	Self-rated global health			No