Cancer: Thriving and Surviving Online Workshop and Study for Cancer Survivors

February 5, 2013 updated by: Kate Lorig, Stanford University

Cancer Survivors Online Self-Management Workshop

Cancer: Surviving and Thriving is a 6-week workshop for cancer survivors. The overall goal of the study is to determine whether an online cancer survivor education and support workshop can have lasting beneficial effects in helping survivors improve their self-management of health skills and quality of life.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This workshop is aimed at helping you better manage your own health and the demands placed on you because of your cancer diagnosis. It is hoped that the workshop will give you the skills needed to reduce stress and improve your quality of life. If successful, the workshop can be made available to other cancer survivors.

Each workshop is 6 weeks with new lessons each week. You will be asked to log on at your convenience 2-3 times each week for a total of 1-2 hours, to read the lessons, complete assignments, and share your ideas and experiences with your classmates. There are no requirements that participants log in at the same time.

With the moderators and other workshop participants, you will discuss:

  • Healthy eating
  • Managing fatigue
  • Managing stress
  • Starting and maintaining an appropriate physical activity program
  • Getting a good night's sleep
  • Dealing with difficult emotions
  • Solving the problems caused by having had cancer
  • Communicating better with your health care professionals
  • Communicating better with your friends, family and coworkers

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

585

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United Kingdom
    • UK
      • London, UK, United Kingdom
        • Macmillan Cancer Support
  • United States
    • California
      • Stanford, California, United States, 94305
        • Stanford University School of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

19 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:Any adult (19 and over) cancer survivor living in the United States who: 1) was diagnosed within the past 5 years with a new or recurring cancer since the original diagnosis; 2) has completed their cancer treatment (surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy); 3) isn't currently being treated for cancer except for hormonal therapy; and 4) has and email account and access to high speed internet connection. Exclusion Criteria:Not meeting the inclusion criteria

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: online workshop
Behavioral: Cancer: Thriving and Surviving Online Workshop

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Document patterns of health care utilization
Time Frame: 2011
2011
Quality of Life
Time Frame: baseline and 6 months
baseline and 6 months
Outcome Measure: Better Interactions with Oncologists
Time Frame: baseline and 6 months
baseline and 6 months
Health Behaviors
Time Frame: baseline and 6 months
baseline and 6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Satisfaction with intervention
Time Frame: baseline and 6 months
baseline and 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Collaborators

University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

July 1, 2009

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 1, 2011

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 18, 2009

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 19, 2009

First Posted (Estimate)

August 20, 2009

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 7, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 5, 2013

Last Verified

February 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • VAR0044
  • SU-07292009-3460 (Other Identifier: Stanford University)

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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