Integrating palliative care into self-management of breast cancer: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite evidence that palliative care increases quality and length of life, many patients and families remain uninformed about its nature and benefits. The purpose of this study is to test a psycho-educational intervention, Managing Cancer Care: A Personal Guide (MCC), intended to improve breast cancer patients' knowledge of palliative care and to facilitate its timely integration into cancer self-management.

Methods

Aims are to: 1) evaluate the effects of MCC on patients' knowledge of palliative care; 2) examine preliminary effects of MCC on patients' behaviors (role in self-management, engagement in goals of care conversations, medical communication, management of transitions, health care utilization), and feelings (self-efficacy, anxiety, depression, uncertaint

SUBMITTER: Schulman-Green D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937876 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature