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NCT04568226Completed

The Effect of Metacognition-based, Manualized Intervention on Fear of Cancer Recurrence

The Effect of Metacognition-based, Manualized Intervention on Fear of Cancer Recurrence: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Jun 2024

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The primary aim of this study is to assess the effect of ConquerFear, a metacognition-based manualized intervention on fear of cancer recurrence, using the randomized controlled trial approach, among Chinese patients newly diagnosed with curable cancer. This study aims to (1) test the direct effect of ConquerFear intervention on fear of cancer recurrence and on maladaptive metacognition, and (2) to test the indirect effect of ConquerFear intervention on fear of cancer recurrence through its effect on maladaptive metacognition.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
177 (actual)
First submitted
22 Sept 2020
Start date
21 Jul 2021
Primary completion date
30 Sept 2023
Lead sponsor
The University of Hong Kong
NCT number
NCT04568226

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 177
  • From 21 Jul 2021 to the primary completion date, 30 Sept 2023
  • 6 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • currently receiving psychological treatment

Other illness

  • Patients diagnosed with metastatic cancer

Other

  • non-Chinese ethnicity
  • with a current diagnosis of depression or psychosis
  • with language difficulties or intellectual disability.

Who the study is looking for

  • Cantonese- or Mandarin-speaking Chinese patients recently diagnosed with non-metastatic breast cancer, gynecologic cancer, or colorectal cancer
  • had surgery as a primary treatment
  • have had completed hospital-based adjuvant treatments including radiotherapy and chemotherapy within the past 18 months
  • with the cut-off scored ≥ 13 on Severity, the subscale of Fear of cancer inventory
  • are able to read and write Chinese
  • are over the age of 18 years

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (6)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Prince of Wales Hospital-Department of Surgery
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status
Tung Wah Hospital-Department of Surgery
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status
Kwong Wah Hospital-Breast Center
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status
The University of Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute of Cancer Care
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status
Queen Mary Hospital-Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status
Queen Mary Hospital-Department of Surgery
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status

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