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The Breast Cancer Survivors and Partners Online Research Together (SUPORT) Project

The SUPORT Project: Leveraging Social Connection by Including Informal Caregivers in an Internet Video Conference-based Compassion Meditation Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress in Breast Cancer Survivors

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests live online compassion meditation training called CBCT to help reduce depression and anxiety after breast cancer treatment. It is for breast cancer survivors and supportive partners—adult family members who live with them and help with their care.

Many breast cancer survivors (estimated 70% in some studies) experience clinically significant depression and/or anxiety in the months and years after finishing cancer treatments. This research will build on the rigor of prior research to reduce breast cancer survivor depression and anxiety with a compassion meditation intervention called CBCT (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) for online synchronous delivery that is also inclusive of informal caregivers (i.e., adult family members who live with and typically provide half the care for survivors, aka supportive partners).

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Survivors: Be female by biological sex.
  • Survivors: Have a breast cancer diagnosis.
  • Survivors: Have finished main cancer treatments, such as surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, 3 months to 5 years before starting the study program. Hormone treatments or trastuzumab may continue.
  • Survivors: Have a supportive partner who can take part with you.
  • Both survivors and partners: Speak and understand English.
  • Partners: Be chosen by the survivor.
  • Partners: Live in the same home as the survivor.

Who can't join

  • Survivors: Live in a nursing home.
  • Both survivors and partners: Currently meditate at least once a week, or have done or tried meditation more than twice a year in the past 4 years. This includes meditation alone or in a group. The lead researcher will review this.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Breast cancer survivors: Inclusion Criteria: * biological sex: woman * able to speak and understand English * have a diagnosis of a breast cancer * have completed primary curative cancer treatments (i.e., surgery, radiation, chemotherapy) except for hormonal therapies (e.g., aromatase inhibitors) or trastuzumab a minimum of 3 months and a maximum of 5 years before starting CBCT or the control * have a supportive partner (aka caregiver) who can participate with them Exclusion Criteria: * nursing home resident * have ongoing (1 or more meditation sessions per week) or past regular meditation experience in the last 4 years (i.e., more than two meditation sessions \[completed or attempted\] per year, either with a group or individually, to be evaluated by the Principal Investigator) Supportive partners (aka informal caregivers) Inclusion Criteria: * named by the survivor * live in the same household as the survivor * able to speak and understand English Exclusion Criteria: * have ongoing (1 or more meditation sessions per week) or past regular meditation experience in the last 4 years (i.e., more than two meditation sessions \[completed or attempted\] per year, either with a group or individually, to be evaluated by the Principal Investigator)

Study sites (1)

AZ