Trial Information

Effectiveness of a Family-oriented Rehabilitation Programme for Mothers With Breast Cancer and Their Children - Quality of Life and Psychological Health of Mothers and Their Children

About 1/3 of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are mothers of children who still live
at home. They face additional challenges and stress, their children are also affected by the
mother's illness. The oncological rehabilitation programme "getting better together",
administered by the Rexrodt von Fircks Foundation and the Clinic Ostseedeich in Groemitz,
Germany, focuses on these special family needs. This waiting-control-group-study, designed
and executed at the Philipps University Marburg Medical Center, Department of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, examines the effectiveness of the intervention by accompanying the
patients and their children over the course of a year and assessing their quality of life
and psychological health.

The primary outcome measure for mothers is the health related quality of life as assessed by
the EORTC QLQ-C30 and BR-23; children's adaptation is assessed with the ILK (Inventory for
the Assessment of Quality of Life of Children and Adolescents) as well as the Strengths and
Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)