NCT07539649Not yet recruiting
LiveWell mBc: Adapted Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Training
LiveWell mBC: Pilot Test of an Adapted Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Training Program in Groups of Women Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
In this pilot randomized controlled trial, women with metastatic breast cancer and at least mild distress (N=48) will be randomized to receive LiveWell mBC, a group-based adapted Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training protocol, or Usual Care. The investigators will evaluate feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of LiveWell to reduce distress (primary outcome) and improve psychological well-being, symptom burden, and quality of life (secondary outcomes).
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 48 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 13 Apr 2026
- Start date
- Sept 2026
- Primary completion date
- Jan 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Diseases
- Metastatic breast cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07539649
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 48
- From Sept 2026 to the primary completion date, Jan 2027
- No sites listed in no 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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Other illness
- reported or suspected cognitive impairment
- presence of untreated serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia) indicated by the medical chart or treating oncologist
Other
- expected survival \<6 months, as indicated by a hospice referral
Who the study is looking for
- identify as female
- be diagnosed with metastatic (AJCC stage IV) breast cancer
- be receiving care for metastatic breast cancer at Hollings Cancer Center
- endorse \>3 out of 10 on the NCCN distress thermometer over the past week plus at least one emotional concern on the problem checklist
- be \> 18 years of age
- be able to understand, speak, and read English
- be able to provide informed consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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