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| R21CA129890-01A2 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source | |
| CC09310 | Other Identifier | University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center | |
| M-2009-1189 | Other Identifier | Institutional Review Board | |
| A568000 | Other Identifier | UW Madison | |
| PHARM/SRC | Other Identifier | UW Madison |
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| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | NIH |
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The investigators will test whether narrative life review and web-based social networking for middle aged adults with advanced cancer will improve:
The investigators will also conduct exploratory process analyses of each participant's social network.
Middle aged patients with advanced cancer report more distress, and active search for meaning and personal growth than older and/or early stage patients. Nonetheless, such positive growth is far from typical and interventions help. Expert-guided life review reduced distress for hospice patients, but is not widely accessible-and many patients lack the energy or skill to write their own life story. Online cancer information and support expert systems improve quality of life. Patients are increasingly developing their own social networks, but many lack the skills to do so. Moreover the effects on social networking on patient well-being have not been studied.
"My Living Story" elicits a dignity-enhancing life story via a telephone interview (based on Chochinov, JAMA 2002), and delivers the edited transcript on the patient's personal miLivingStory social network. miLivingStory links to a life review education website (called miStory) with links to high quality cancer information, support and interactive planning tools.
We hypothesize that telling, revising and sharing the life story with one's selected social network will improve the patient's existential well-being and reduce their distress. Furthermore, we hypothesize that these effects will be mediated by My Living Story's effects on improving the patient's sense of legacy (generativity) and the quality of their relationships. Our exploratory observational analyses of each individual miLivingStory network will contribute to an understanding of how social network configuration and communication patterns correlate with measured outcomes
We will recruit and randomize 100 patients with advanced cancer. The control group will receive a personalized web portal (called miOwnResources) with links to high quality cancer information, social support and interactive planning tools, and a feature to add their own links. All participants will sign informed consent forms, complete a pre-test survey and post-tests at tow and four months.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| My Living Story | Experimental | "My Living Story" elicits a dignity-enhancing life story via a telephone interview, and delivers the edited transcript on the patient's personal miLivingStory social network. miLivingStory also provides a direct link to miStory, a life review education website with links to high quality websites that provide cancer information, databases to "do your own research", social support, interactive planning tools, and a page to add their own weblinks. miLivingStory and miStory are both password protected. |
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| My Own Resources | Active Comparator | My Own Resources offers usual care access to high quality websites that provide cancer information, databases to "do your own research," social support, and interactive planning tools. Participants will receive access to the website miOwnResources. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| My Living Story | Behavioral | Components include: 1. Life Review Interview by phone (questions based on Chochinov, 2002 dignity enhancing interview); 2) Edited transcript is delivered in a word format on...; 3) miLivingStory, a personal social network, where participants can manage content, design and layer; invite and manage their fiends and family. 4) miStory, a life review education website and portal to websites for: cancer information, databases to "do your own research," social support, interactive planning tools, and a page to add their own weblinks. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Existential Well-being (FACIT-Sp) | 0, 2 and 4 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Distress (POMS-SF) | 0, 2, and 4 months |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Margaret (Meg) E Wise, PhD | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center | Madison | Wisconsin | 53792 | United States |
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| University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center | View source |
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| D009362 | Neoplasm Metastasis |
| D012008 | Recurrence |
| D009369 | Neoplasms |
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| D009385 | Neoplastic Processes |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D020969 | Disease Attributes |
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| My Own Resources | Behavioral | miOwnResources is a personalized, password-protected web portal to high quality websites that provide cancer information, cancer research databases for "do your own research," social support, and interactive planning tools. miOwnResources also has a page for participants to add their own weblinks. |
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