Cancer survivorship care for young adults: a risk-stratified, multicenter randomized controlled trial to improve symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Young adult (YA) cancer survivors have high rates of adverse health and psychosocial outcomes. This risk-stratified, multicenter, randomized controlled trial (RCT) compared a self-management survivorship intervention to usual care in YA survivors with symptoms of cancer-related distress, insomnia, fatigue, pain, and/or depression.

Methods

Eligibility included age 18-39 at diagnosis with an invasive malignancy in the previous 1-5 years. Baseline assessment determined "high need" participants, with 2-5 elevated targeted symptoms. We randomized high need participants to intervention or usual care and offered intervention participants a survivorship clinic visit, which included mutually decided action plans for symptoms. Follow-up calls at 1 and 3 months after the clinic

SUBMITTER: Syrjala KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9438455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature