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  • Web-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Distressed Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial

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    Chambers, Suzanne K
    Ritterband, Lee M
    Thorndike, Frances
    Nielsen, Lisa
    Aitken, Joanne F
    Clutton, Samantha
    Scuffham, Paul A
    Youl, Philippa
    Morris, Bronwyn
    Baade, Peter D
    Dunn, Jeff
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    Chambers, Suzanne K.
    Scuffham, Paul A.
    Year published
    2018
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    Background: Web-based interventions present a potentially cost-effective approach to supporting self-management for cancer patients; however, further evidence for acceptability and effectiveness is needed. Objective: The goal of our research was to assess the effectiveness of an individualized Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention on improving psychological and quality of life outcomes in cancer patients with elevated psychological distress. Methods: A total of 163 distressed cancer patients (111 female, 68.1%) were recruited through the Queensland Cancer Registry and the Cancer Council Queensland Cancer ...
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    Background: Web-based interventions present a potentially cost-effective approach to supporting self-management for cancer patients; however, further evidence for acceptability and effectiveness is needed. Objective: The goal of our research was to assess the effectiveness of an individualized Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention on improving psychological and quality of life outcomes in cancer patients with elevated psychological distress. Methods: A total of 163 distressed cancer patients (111 female, 68.1%) were recruited through the Queensland Cancer Registry and the Cancer Council Queensland Cancer Helpline and randomly assigned to either a Web-based tailored CBT intervention (CancerCope) (79/163) or a static patient education website (84/163). At baseline and 8-week follow-up we assessed primary outcomes of psychological and cancer-specific distress and unmet psychological supportive care needs and secondary outcomes of positive adjustment and quality of life. Results: Intention-to-treat analyses showed no evidence of a statistically significant intervention effect on primary or secondary outcomes. However, per-protocol analyses found a greater decrease for the CancerCope group in psychological distress (P=.04), cancer-specific distress (P=.02), and unmet psychological care needs (P=.03) from baseline to 8 weeks compared with the patient education group. Younger patients were more likely to complete the CancerCope intervention. Conclusions: This online CBT intervention was associated with greater decreases in distress for those patients who more closely adhered to the program. Given the low costs and high accessibility of this intervention approach, even if only effective for subgroups of patients, the potential impact may be substantial.
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    Journal Title
    JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
    Volume
    20
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8850
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) YEAR. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383772
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