Development and Pilot Testing of a Psychosocial Intervention Program for Young Breast Cancer Survivors

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• Alternative Title:
  Patient Educ Couns
• Personal Author:
  Ahmed, Kauser ; Marchand, Erica ; Williams, Victoria ; Coscarelli, Anne ; Ganz, Patricia A.
• Description:
  Objective ; To describe the development, pilot testing, and dissemination of a psychosocial intervention addressing concerns of young breast cancer survivors (YBCS). ; Methods ; Intervention development included needs assessment with community organizations and interviews with YBCS. Based on evidence-based models of treatment, the intervention included tools for managing anxiety, fear of recurrence, tools for decision-making, and coping with sexuality/ relationship issues. After pilot testing in a university setting, the program was disseminated to two community clinical settings. ; Results ; The program has two distinct modules (anxiety management and relationships/sexuality) that were delivered in two sessions; however, due to attrition, an all day workshop evolved. An author constructed questionnaire was used for pre- and post-intervention evaluation. Post-treatment scores showed an average increase of 2.7 points on a 10 point scale for the first module, and a 2.3 point increase for the second module. Qualitative feedback surveys were also collected. The two community sites demonstrated similar gains among their participants. ; Conclusions ; The intervention satisfies an unmet need for YBCS and is a possible model of integrating psychosocial intervention with oncology care. ; Practice Implications ; This program developed standardized materials which can be disseminated to other organizations and potentially online for implementation within community settings.
• Subjects:
  • Article
  • young breast cancer survivors
  • sexuality
  • fear of cancer recurrence
  • survivorship
  • quality of life
  • psychosocial intervention
• Source:
  Patient Educ Couns. 99(3):414-420.
• Pubmed ID:
  26456635
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4779394
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R25 CA087949/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U58 DP003429/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; 1U58DP003429/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; R25CA 87949/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  99
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/38367/cdc_38367_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 503.03 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7078573ac565c348d8528a152adcc1994158d08a129472594753d3193eca2d95