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Digestive System Neoplasms

Gastrointestinal Diseases

Quality of Life

3 individual sessions in which patients are going to learn how to identify, understand, express and regulate emotions

3 individual sessions in which patients are going to follow relaxation instructions after a non-directive talk about their current or past experience of cancer.

3 sessions of 1,5 hour each. The first session can be face to face or over the phone, the two last ones will be held over the phone.

Emotional skills

Short free talk and relaxation

Alexis Cortot, MD,PhD

Eric Wasielewski

Sophie Lelorain, PhD

Christelle Duprez, PhD

Emotional skills are the ability to use emotions cleverly in daily life. Good emotional skills are associated with better mental and physical health in healthy and clinical populations. However, to our knowledge, cancer patients have never benefited from an intervention aiming at increasing their emotional skills. Our goal was thus to design and test such an intervention. A prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted in esogastric and lung cancer patients after antineoplastic treatments. Forty-three patients are expected in each arm. The primary outcome is the change in emotional skills assessed using a patient-reported validated questionnaire between the start and two weeks after the end of the intervention and at 2-month follow-up. The experimental arm will have to follow three individual sessions on emotional skills (i.e. identification, understanding, expression and regulation of emotions) while the control arm will have to follow three sessions of relaxation. In each arm, the first session can be held face to face or over the phone and the last two sessions will be held over the phone. Patients have exercises to practice in between sessions.It is hypothesised that the experimental group will experience a greater increase in emotional skills than the control group.

Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention Aimed at Increasing the Emotional Competencies of Patients Under Surveillance After Antineoplastic Treatment of Oesogastric or Bronchopulmonary Cancer

Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention Aimed at Increasing the Emotional Competencies of Patients Under Surveillance After Antineoplastic Treatment of Oesogastric or Bronchopulmonary Cancer: a Randomized, Multicenter, Controlled Pilot Study (EmoVie-K2)

Variation in patient-reported 13-item Short Profile of Emotional Competence (S-PEC) score from baseline (T0) to 15 days after the intervention (T1)

Variation in the emotional competence score (13-item S-PEC) between Baseline (T0) and T2 (2.5 months after the last session).

Variation in the Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale (DERS 16) score between T0 and T1 and between T1 and T2.

Patients' self-reported quality of life assessed using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General (FACT-G) questionnaire

Variation in assessed quality of life (FACT-G) between T0 and T1 and between T1 and T2 based on variation in emotional competence (13-item S-PEC)

The percentage of patients who have attended the 3 group sessions

The percentage of patients who have performed the suggested exercises at home between sessions

Patient-reported satisfaction regarding the intervention using ad hoc questionnaire

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention Aimed at Increasing the Emotional Competencies of Patients Under Surveillance After Antineoplastic Treatment of Oesogastric or Bronchopulmonary Cancer	NCT04556344	Digestive Syste... Thoracic Neopla...	Emotional skill... Short free talk...	18 Years -	University Hospital, Lille
Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention Aimed at Increasing the Emotional Competencies of Patients Under Surveillance After Antineoplastic Treatment of Oesogastric or Bronchopulmonary Cancer	NCT04556344	Digestive Syste... Thoracic Neopla...	Emotional skill... Short free talk...	18 Years -	University Hospital, Lille

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