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Cognitive Rehabilitation Following Breast Cancer Treatment
Sponsor: University of Missouri-Columbia
Summary
The goal of this proposed project is to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effect of metacognitive strategy training to improve activity performance, cognition, and quality of life in breast cancer survivors with cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI). The other goal of this proposed project is to examine the effects of CO-OP on resting (rsFC)- and task-state functional connectivity as compared to an inactive control group.
Official title: Pilot Testing of Metacognitive Strategy Training to Address Cancer-related Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
20 Years - 75 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2024-10-31
Completion Date
2026-06-30
Last Updated
2026-02-19
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Metacognitive Strategy Training (MCST)
The MCST group will follow procedures for the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance intervention. First, five functional, everyday life goals are identified collaboratively by the participant and interventionist. In the second meeting, the therapist introduces the approach to the subject and teach a global cognitive strategy (i.e., GOAL-PLAN-DO-CHECK). In all subsequent sessions, this strategy is used as the main problem-solving framework to facilitate skill acquisition. The subject identifies a GOAL, and then is guided by the therapist to discover a PLAN to potentially achieve the goal. The subject is then asked to DO the plan (if feasible during the therapy session otherwise asked to complete at home prior to the next treatment session), and subsequently to CHECK to see if the plan worked, i.e. the goal was achieved. This process is repeated until satisfactory performance is met for each established goal.
Inactive Control Group
Weekly contact will be made via telephone call to (1) maintain study engagement, (2) introduce weekly social contact with researchers, mimicking some of the potential incidental effects of the experimental group, and (3) ascertain what, if any, additional steps participants have taken to reduce cognitive symptoms. The content of each of these meetings will be tracked in intervention notes.
Locations (1)
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, United States