Cited by 94Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of LifeCancer survivorship and careDigital Mental Health Interventions

Online group-based cognitive-behavioural therapy for adolescents and young adults after cancer treatment: A multicenter randomised controlled trial of Recapture Life-AYA

Open access
Sansom-Daly, Ursula M, Wakefield, Claire E, Bryant, Richard A, Butow, Phyllis, Sawyer, Susan, Patterson, Pandora, Anazodo, Antoinette, Thompson, Kate +1 more·2012·BMC Cancer

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A cancer diagnosis is 2.9 times more likely to occur during the adolescent and young adult years than in younger children. This spike in incidence coincides with a life stage characterised by psychological vulnerability as young people strive to attain numerous, critical developmental milestones. The distress young people experience after cancer treatment seriously jeopardises their ability to move into well-functioning adulthood. METHODS/DESIGN: This article presents the protocol of the Recapture Life study, a phase II three-arm randomised controlled trial designed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of a new intervention in reducing distress and improving quality of life for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. The novel intervention, "ReCaPTure LiFe" will be compared to a both a wait-list, and a peer-support group control. Ninety young people aged 15-25 years who have completed cancer treatment in the past 1-6 months will be recruited from hospitals around Australia. Those randomised to receive Recapture Life will participate in six, weekly, 90-minute online group sessions led by a psychologist, involving peer-discussion around cognitive-behavioural coping skills (including: behavioural activation, thought challenging, communication and assertiveness skills training, problem-solving and goal-setting). Participants randomised to the peer-support group control will receive non-directive peer support delivered in an identical manner. Participants will complete psychosocial measures at baseline, post-intervention, and 12-months post-intervention. The primary outcome will be quality of life. Secondary outcomes will include depression, anxiety, stress, family functioning, coping, and cancer-related identity. DISCUSSION: This article reviews the empirical rationale for using group-based, online cognitive-behavioural therapy in young people after cancer treatment. The potential challenges of delivering skills-based programs in an online modality are highlighted, and the role of both peer and caregiver support in enhancing the effectiveness of this skills-based intervention is also discussed. The innovative videoconferencing delivery method Recapture Life uses has the potential to address the geographic and psychological isolation of adolescents and young adults as they move toward cancer survivorship. It is expected that teaching AYAs coping skills as they resume their normal lives after cancer may have long-term implications for their quality of life. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ACTRN12610000717055.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1186/1471-2407-12-339

Cites

89 of 89 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Videoconferencing is an efficacious mode of delivering treatment for a wide range of mental and physical conditions, and a variety of different interventions have been delivered including cognitive behavioral, supportive, and educational.

    “Videoconferencing is an efficacious mode of delivering treatment for a wide range of mental and physical conditions, and a variety of different interventions have been delivered including cognitive behavioral, supportive, and educational [41–45].”

    From Novel patient-reported outcomes (PROs) used in a pilot and feasibility study of a Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills (CBCS) group intervention for patients with chronic hepatitis C (2018) · cites this paper as [44]

    The Discussion (page not specified) describes videoconferencing as promising for treating some disorders and says CBT techniques may translate well to it. The Methods/Design section describes a videoconferenced CBT intervention, but the paper does not establish efficacy across a wide range of mental and physical conditions or document videoconferenced supportive and educational treatments. (LLM, conf=0.85)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Sansom-Daly, U. M., Wakefield, C. E., Bryant, R. A., Butow, P., Sawyer, S., Patterson, P., Anazodo, A., Thompson, K., & Cohn, R. J.
Affiliations
  • Sydney Children's Hospital (AU)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
  • Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
  • Canteen (AU)
  • Prince of Wales Hospital (AU)
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (AU)
Venue
BMC Cancer
Published
2012-08-03
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
339-339
ISSN
1471-2407 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2097753890
Cited by
94
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
FWCI
3.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • BMC Cancer (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Cancer Australia
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
Keywords
adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, peer support, quality of life, psychological distress, depression, anxiety, stress, behavioral activation, coping skills training, videoconferencing, family functioning, caregiver support
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Counseling, Humans, Neoplasms, Peer Group, Quality of Life, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Survivors, Internet, Young Adult

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review