Sense of Hope Alleviates Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors

NCT ID: NCT02393105

Last Updated: 2015-03-24

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

180 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-01-31

Study Completion Date

2015-07-31

Brief Summary

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This study explores the relationship between the sense of hope and fatigue in breast cancer survivors and provides a reference for future planning improvements for breast cancer survivors experiencing fatigue.

Detailed Description

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Breast cancer is an important and escalating issue for females all over the world. Due to the improvement of medical and technological progress, the survival rate of breast cancer patient increases every year. Breast cancer survivors, after the discomforting distress from cancer treatment, will go through treatment-derived physical distress and worry about relapse. As a result the fatigue in breast cancer survivors has not been reduced after primary treatment. Feeling fatigue in a long term will bring mental illness problems ,decrease the quality of life and weaken the will to survive. A sense of hope in the face of fatigue may serve as an important driving force and enhance the survivors' will to survive. This study explores the relationship between the sense of hope and fatigue in breast cancer survivors and provides a reference for future planning improvements for breast cancer survivors experiencing fatigue.

A cross-sectional study design is adopted for this study. The study expects to collect 200 questionnaires from breast cancer survivors through medical centers treating breast cancer and breast cancer patients communities. The questionnaire includes (a) the basic demographic information (b) disease history (c) social support scale; (d) short version multiaxial fatigue syndrome scale; (e) Hearst hope scale.

Answered questionnaires will be input to spreadsheets for further statistical analysis using SPSS 19.0 statistical software packages.

Conditions

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Carcinoma of Male Breast

Study Design

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Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Breast cancer survivor

Females finished primary breast cancer treatment including surgical operation, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. diagnosed as a breast cancer patient
2. complete operation,chemotherapy and radiation therapy
3. understand the treatment and condition by herself
4. conscious clear who can speaking Mandarin or: Taiwanese
5. after consenting , the participant agree to participate orally or write down in the consent form

Exclusion Criteria

1. Can not speaking Mandarin or Taiwanese
2. Psychotic or Understanding barriers
3. refuse verbally or write the Consent Form
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

90 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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ChunaNG Pei-Hsuan

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Taiwan University Hospital

Locations

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National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Pei-Hsuan Chuang

Role: CONTACT

886-918559583

Facility Contacts

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Chuang Pei-Hsuan

Role: primary

886-918559583

References

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Other Identifiers

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201411051RINB

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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