Self-Management Intervention for Breathlessness in Lung Cancer

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

56

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 30, 2011

Primary Completion Date

December 30, 2015

Study Completion Date

December 30, 2015

Conditions
Lung CancerBreathlessness
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Self-management Intervention

Individual, face-to-face 7-session self-management intervention delivered by a specialist oncology nurse/clinical case manager as a home-based approach using a manual for each session. The intervention is delivered through scheduled home visits (7 sessions about one-hour in length), telephone coaching (2 sessions/week to reinforce use of strategies and for symptom monitoring: 15 minutes), and nurse moderated online peer chat or chat that is self-initiated at other times (7 weekly sessions about one hour in length).

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network, Toronto

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

OTHER_GOV

lead

University Health Network, Toronto

OTHER

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