Development and Pilot Trial of Focused ACT (FACT) for Patients With Advanced Cancer
- Advanced Cancer
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase not stated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Enrolment target
- 70
- Started
- 21 July 2025
- Main results due
- 31 December 2027
- Study sites
- 1
- Registry updated
- 25 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Aged 18 years and over.
- Open to any sex.
- You need the condition being studied — healthy volunteers are not accepted.
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Read the full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult cancer patients diagnosed with advanced cancer (solid tumor and hematologic) * Progressed past at least one line of palliative systemic cancer therapy * Patient followed by Supportive Care Outpatient Service * English speaking * Able to provide written informed consent * Willing to participate in a stress and coping program * Willing to identify 1-2 important areas of life they might like to discuss with a counselor * Moderate levels of death anxiety on DADDS (\>=25, on 0-75 scale) * Access to technology to support institutionally approved video-conferencing platform of Zoom Exclusion Criteria: * ECOG performance status \>=3 "capable of only limited selfcare; confined to bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours" * Currently participating in regular psychotherapy (patient defined) * Documented out of hospital DNR (do not resuscitate) orders * Presence of active suicidal ideation or need for a higher level of care (as determined by Supportive Care physician or licensed mental health clinician).
What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
To learn about the effects of an intervention program called Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) on the level of anxiety patients diagnosed with cancer feel about death.
To learn if an intervention program called Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT), designed to help reduce death-related anxiety, is effective and acceptable to patients diagnosed with advanced cancer.
Study sites(1)
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Recruiting
Showing 1 of 1 sites. 1 of the 1 site on this study is recruiting right now — a site can stop enrolling while the study as a whole is still open.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT07105033. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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