Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Impact of a Psychoeducational Intervention on Expectations and Coping in Young Women (18-30 Years) Exposed to a High Familial Breast/Ovarian Cancer Risk
Brief Summary:
Young female counselees (18-30 years) belonging to HBOC families with a known mutation on BRCA-genes or not, receive a lot of information regarding their cancer risk. Information sources are numerous and sometimes contradictory. Unfortunately, these women face these issues at a key moment of there identity construction (self, relationship, sexuality) while they are not yet concerned by health prevention measures. A special psychoeducational intervention was designed to help these women to better cope with these difficulties.
Intervention consists in a week-end session in a thermal center (SPA) during which they will attend short conferences given by specialists (prevention measures, prophylactic surgery, assisted procreation, epidemiology...) and participate to role games and group sharing.
Intervention will be evaluated using self-questionnaires completed before intervention and during the following year.