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NCT Number: NCT01383174

Nuevo Amanecer: Promoting the Psychosocial Health of Latinas

The purpose of this study is to test whether a new program Nuevo Amanecer (A New Dawn), improves the quality of life of Latinas diagnosed with breast cancer. Trained Latina counselors who have had breast cancer provide support to recently diagnosed women. The investigators call these counselors peer support counselors.

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Key information

Conditions

Breast Neoplasms Breast Diseases Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Psychology, Social Skin Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Multiple Locations, California, United States

About this study

This study will assess the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral stress management (CBSM) intervention for newly diagnosed Latina breast cancer patients. In our prior work, the investigators established the appropriate content of the intervention, the need for early intervention, and the value of culturally competent peer support. In this study the investigators will adapt an evidence-based CBSM intervention designed to meet these needs. This study will use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design with a wait-listed usual care control group to adapt the intervention and test its effectiveness in improving breast cancer specific quality-of-life, and decreasing anxiety and breast cancer specific distress. The new, adapted intervention will be called "Nuevo Amanecer" (A New Dawn).

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Self-identifies as Latina
  • Diagnosed with Stage 0, I, II, or III in the prior month
  • Primarily Spanish-speaking, or Spanish monolingual
  • Aged 18 or older
  • Diagnosed in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Francisco or Santa Clara counties, California.

Exclusion criteria

  • Previous cancer diagnosis except for non-melanoma skin cancer
  • Terminal illness
  • Stage IV breast cancer (distant metastasis)

Treatment and study plan

Peer support program

Behavioral
  • Work with a trained counselor who is a breast cancer survivor
  • Meet 8 times in-person over the 8 week program with the counselor
  • Counselor helps participant develop a personalized support program to help her improve her quality of life
  • Receives information on breast cancer, its treatments, and stress management

Other names: Nuevo Amanecer (A New Dawn)

Primary outcomes

  1. Physical Well-being a Subcale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Quality of Life Instrument (FACT-B)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    FACT-B was used as the breast cancer-specific quality-of-life measure. FACT-B consists of 5 subscale scores pertaining to 4 well-being dimensions (physical, social-family, emotional, functional) and additional breast cancer concerns. A total overall score is the sum of all subscales. Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=somewhat, 3=quite a bit, and 4=very much.

    Psychometric analysis in our Spanish-speaking Latina sample resulted in modifications to FACT-B: physical well-being subscale. Of 7 items, 1 was dropped because it was conceptually different from other items on that scale. Modified subscale was scored by summing items. Possible score ranges for physical well-being were 0-24. Higher scores indicated greater well-being.

  2. Social/Family Well-being a Subcale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Quality of Life Instrument (FACT-B)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    FACT-B was used as the breast cancer-specific quality-of-life measure. FACT-B consists of 5 subscale scores pertaining to 4 well-being dimensions (physical, social-family, emotional, functional) and additional breast cancer concerns. A total overall score is the sum of all subscales. Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=somewhat, 3=quite a bit, and 4=very much.

    Psychometric analysis in our Spanish-speaking Latina sample resulted in modifications to FACT-B: social/family well-being subscale. Of 7 items, 2 were dropped because the items were conditional on having a partner (resulting in lots of missing data). Modified subscale was scored by summing items. Possible score ranges for social/family well-being were 0-20. Higher scores indicated greater well-being.

  3. Emotional Well-being a Subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Quality of Life Instrument (FACT-B)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    FACT-B was used as the breast cancer-specific quality-of-life measure. FACT-B consists of 5 subscale scores pertaining to 4 well-being dimensions (physical, social-family, emotional, functional) and additional breast cancer concerns. A total overall score is the sum of all subscales. Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=somewhat, 3=quite a bit, and 4=very much.

    Psychometric analysis in our Spanish-speaking Latina sample resulted in modifications to FACT-B: emotional well-being subscale. Of 6 items, 1 was dropped because of low item-scale correlations and it was conceptually different from the other items on that scale (only positively worded item on the scale). Modified subscale was scored by summing items. Possible score ranges for emotional well-being were 0-20. Higher scores indicated greater well-being.

  4. Breast Cancer Concerns a Subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Quality of Life Instrument (FACT-B)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    FACT-B was used as the breast cancer-specific quality-of-life measure. FACT-B consists of 5 subscale scores pertaining to 4 well-being dimensions (physical, social-family, emotional, functional) and additional breast cancer concerns. A total overall score is the sum of all subscales. Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=somewhat, 3=quite a bit, and 4=very much.

    Psychometric analysis in our Spanish-speaking Latina sample resulted in modifications to FACT-B: breast cancer concerns subscale. Of 7 items, 2 were dropped because of low item-scale correlations and were conceptually different from the other items on that scale. Modified subscale was scored by summing items. Possible score ranges for emotional well-being were 0-28. Higher scores indicated greater well-being.

  5. Enjoyment of Life a Subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Quality of Life Instrument (FACT-B)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    FACT-B was used as the breast cancer-specific quality-of-life measure. FACT-B consists of 5 subscale scores pertaining to 4 well-being dimensions (physical, social-family, emotional, functional) and additional breast cancer concerns. A total overall score is the sum of all subscales. Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=somewhat, 3=quite a bit, and 4=very much.

    Psychometric analysis in our Spanish-speaking Latina sample resulted in modifications to FACT-B: functional well-being subscale. Of 7 items, 3 were dropped because items were conceptually different and did not converge psychometrically with the other items on that scale; the remaining 4 items were specific to enjoyment of life, thus we renamed the subscale to "Enjoyment of Life". Modified subscale was scored by summing items. Possible score ranges for enjoyment of life were 0-16. Higher scores indicated greater well-being.

  6. Total Score of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Quality of Life Instrument (FACT-B)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    FACT-B was used as the breast cancer-specific quality-of-life measure. FACT-B consists of 5 subscale scores pertaining to 4 well-being dimensions (physical, social-family, emotional, functional) and additional breast cancer concerns. A total overall score is the sum of all subscales. Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=somewhat, 3=quite a bit, and 4=very much.

    Psychometric analysis in our Spanish-speaking Latina sample resulted in modifications to each of the FACT-B subscale. The total overall score is based on the sum of modified subscales (see above primary outcomes for modifications to subscales). Possible score ranges for the total overall score were 0-108. Higher scores indicated greater well-being.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Anxiety a Subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    BSI was used to measure general symptoms of distress. BSI consists of 3 scale scores pertaining to general symptoms of distress (anxiety, depression, somatization). Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=moderately, 3=quite a bit, and 4=extremely. Scores were the mean of nonmissing items. Possible score ranges for anxiety were 0-4. Higher scores indicated more distress.

  2. Depression a Subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    BSI was used to measure general symptoms of distress. BSI consists of 3 scale scores pertaining to general symptoms of distress (anxiety, depression, somatization). Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=moderately, 3=quite a bit, and 4=extremely. Scores were the mean of nonmissing items. Possible score ranges for depression were 0-4. Higher scores indicated more distress.

  3. Somatization a Subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    BSI was used to measure general symptoms of distress. BSI consists of 3 scale scores pertaining to general symptoms of distress (anxiety, depression, somatization). Response options were 0=not at all, 1=a little bit, 2=moderately, 3=quite a bit, and 4=extremely. Scores were the mean of nonmissing items. Possible score ranges for somatization were 0-4. Higher scores indicated more distress.

  4. Breast Cancer-Specific Distress of the Intrusive Thoughts Scale

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 month assessment

    Breast cancer-specific distress was measured with the 7 item Intrusive Thoughts Scale (anchored to the breast cancer experience), a subscale of the revised Impact of Event Scale (RIES). Response options were 0=not at all, 1=rarely, 2=sometimes, and 3=often. Using the published scoring algorithm, items were summed after recoding responses to 0, 1, 3, and 5. Possible score ranges were 0-35. Higher scores indicate greater distress.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Other

Collaborators

  • California Breast Cancer Research Program
  • Circulo de Vida Cancer Support and Resource Center

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Jun 28, 2011
Registry last updated
Jan 15, 2019

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