Self-Management in Long-Term Prostate Cancer Survivors: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:This randomized clinical trial compared a personally tailored, automated telephone symptom management intervention to improve self-management among long-term survivors of prostate cancer with usual care enhanced with a nontailored newsletter about symptom management. We hypothesized that intervention-group participants would have more confident symptom self-management and reduced symptom burden. METHODS:A total of 556 prostate cancer survivors who, more than 1 year after treatment, were experiencing symptom burden were recruited from April 2015 to February 2017 across four Veterans Affairs sites. Participants were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 278) or usual care (n = 278) groups. We compared differences in the primary (symptom burden according to Expanded Prostate Cancer I

SUBMITTER: Skolarus TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6524986 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature