Low-intensity CBT for women with gynaecological cancer
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluating process and effectiveness of a low-intensity CBT intervention for women with gynaecological cancer.
IRAS ID
239518
Contact name
Nicholas Hulbert-Williams
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Chester
ISRCTN Number
NCT03553784
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 9 months, 31 days
Research summary
There are 21,500 gynaecological cancers diagnosed in the UK each year. These are often diagnosed later than common cancers, which is predictive of low survival and high psychological distress. There are few studies published which accurately map the profile of distress and supportive care needs in gynaecological cancer patients, nor which test psychological interventions to support this group.
This study will undertake a non-randomised controlled trial of a psychological intervention designed to help this group of women. The intervention is group-delivered and runs for eight weeks. It is delivered by psychologists, psychological wellbeing practitioners, and cancer nurse specialists. We will use self report questionnaires to assess how helpful this intervention is at reducing distress and improving quality of life in the participants. This will be done in comparison with a treatment-as-usual control group recruited from a second clinical site. This second group of participants will not receive the psychological intervention, but they will complete the same assessments, as the same time points. To ensure participants are well supported, data collection in our control participants will be done by telephone interview rather than self-report questionnaires. Both groups of participants will undertake a three-month follow-up assessment to check the longer-term effectiveness of the psychological intervention.
REC name
Wales REC 4
REC reference
18/WA/0079
Date of REC Opinion
25 Apr 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion