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Goal-Focused Emotion-Regulation Therapy (GET) for young adult survivors of testicular cancer: a pilot randomized controlled trial of a biobehavioral intervention protocol.

Michael A Hoyt, Ashley Wei-Ting Wang, Sean J Ryan, Elizabeth C Breen, Jennifer S Cheavens, Christian J Nelson

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Article in Trials, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04150848 phase2unknown statusnot on this map

A Biobehavioral Intervention for Young Men With Testicular Cancer: A Pilot Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, IrvineRan2018 to 2021Enrolled100ConditionsTestis CancerArmsGoal-Focused Emotion Regulation Therapy (GET), Individual Supportive Psychotherapy (ISP)
NCT05836688 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

A Biobehavioral Intervention to Reduce Adverse Outcomes in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, IrvineRan2023 to 2028Enrolled250ConditionsTesticular CancerArmsGoal-Focused Emotion-Regulation Therapy (GET), Individual Supportive Listening
NCT06338475 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

A Biobehavioral Intervention for Latino/Hispanic Young Adults with Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, IrvineRan2024 to 2026Enrolled100ConditionsCancerArmsGoal-Focused Emotion-Regulation Therapy (GET), Individual Supportive Listening (ISL)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Goal-Focused Emotion-Regulation Therapy (GET) in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Pilot Study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023
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  5. Young adult Latino testicular cancer survivors: a pilot study of Goal-focused Emotion regulation Therapy (GET).Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024
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  6. Testicular cancer survivorship: Long-term toxicity and management.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Michael A HoytDepartment of Population Health and Disease Prevention and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine, 653 E Peltason Drive, Irvine, CA, 95697-3957, USA. mahoyt@uci.edu.
Ashley Wei-Ting WangDepartment of Psychology, Soochow University, Shinlin, Taiwan.
Sean J RyanDepartment of Psychology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Elizabeth C BreenCousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jennifer S CheavensDepartment of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Christian J NelsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
City University of New York · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USSoochow University · TWThe Ohio State University · USUniversity of California, Irvine · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Clinical and Translational Science CenterUL1TR000457 · NCATS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI IMPERATO-MCGINLEY, JULIANNE L · 2012 to 2016
$46.0M
University of California Health Participation in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)UL1TR001414 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI COOPER, DAN M, VILAIN, ERIC J. · 2015 to 2023
$35.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000457NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001414NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIH HHS UL1TR000457NIH HHS UL1TR001414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTesticular cancer diagnosis and treatment, especially given its threat to sexuality and reproductive health, can be distressing in the formative period of young adulthood and the majority of young survivors experience impairing, distressing, and modifiable adverse outcomes that can persist long after medical treatment. These include psychological distress, impairment in pursuit of life goals, persistent physical side effects, elevated risk of secondary malignancies and chronic illness, and biobehavioral burden (e.g., enhanced inflammation, dysregulated diurnal stress hormones). However, few targeted interventions exist to assist young survivors in renegotiating life goals and regulating cancer-related emotions, and none focus on reducing the burden of morbidity via biobehavioral mechanisms. This paper describes the methodology of a randomized controlled biobehavioral trial designed to investigate the feasibility and preliminary impact of a novel intervention, Goal-focused Emotion-Regulation Therapy (GET), aimed at improving distress symptoms, emotion regulation, goal navigation skills, and stress-sensitive biomarkers in young adult testicular cancer patients.

methodsParticipants will be randomized to receive six sessions of GET or Individual Supportive Therapy (ISP) delivered over 8 weeks. In addition to indicators of intervention feasibility, we will measure primary (depressive and anxiety symptoms) and secondary (emotion regulation and goal navigation skills, career confusion) psychological outcomes prior to (T DISCUSSION: GET may have the potential to improve self-regulation across biobehavioral domains, improve overall cancer adjustment, and address the need for targeted supportive care interventions for young adult cancer survivors.

trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov, NCT04150848. Registered on 28 October 2019.

Indexed as

GoalsAdaptation, PsychologicalAnxietyCancer SurvivorsClinical Trials, Phase II as TopicDepressionEmotional RegulationEmotion-Focused TherapyHumansMaleMotivationMulticenter Studies as TopicPilot ProjectsQuality of LifeRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTesticular NeoplasmsBiobehavioralCancer survivorshipGoalInterventionTesticular cancerYoung adult

Identifiers

PMID32290859
PMCPMC7157999
OpenAlexW3015330127

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