An Impact Assessment of a Culturally Tailored Online Psychosocial Program for Chinese Immigrant Women With Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Breast Cancer focused on measuring Breast cancer, Chinese women, psychosocial, online program
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Foreign-born Chinese immigrant women who identify their mother tongue as either Cantonese or Mandarin
- A diagnosis of new breast cancer (Stages 0-III)
- Receiving surgery (i.e., mastectomy) or adjuvant radiation therapy as the last hospital-based treatment, with the exception of Tamoxifen, bisphosphonates, and Herceptin
- Able to use a computer
- Able to read and speak English, Cantonese, or Mandarin.
Exclusion Criteria:
- recurrence or metastatic disease
Sites / Locations
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health NetworkRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Intervention Arm
Control Group
Participants randomized to the Intervention Arm will be provided with the website link to the online psychosocial program and the questionnaire and distress survey. They will be asked to use the website within two weeks and then to complete the questionnaire and distress survey after using it and mail them back in a self-addressed stamped envelope. The participants will also be asked in the 3-month follow-up questionnaire if they are interested in attending a focus group to elaborate on their experience with the psychosocial self-help program. Those who have expressed an interest will be contacted.
Participants randomized to the Control group will receive standard care (no intervention). They will be used as a baseline to compare groups and assess the effect of the intervention (i.e., the online psychosocial program). At the two weeks following randomization (T1) and the 3-month follow-up periods (T2), they will be asked to complete the questionnaire and distress survey and return them in a self-addressed stamped envelope. Participants will be given two weeks to complete the questionnaire and distress survey. The same documents will be administered at the 3-month follow-up period (T2). Once the 3-month follow-up is completed, each participant will be provided with the website link to view the self-help program.