Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Group Phone-Based Weight Control for Rural Breast Cancer Survivors
Brief Summary: Women who are obese at breast cancer diagnosis have a 1.5 to 2.5 increased risk of recurrence and death compared to their normal weight counterparts. Moreover, weight gain and decreased physical activity are common after diagnosis and also increase the likelihood of breast cancer recurrence and death. Rural women suffer from health disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Women of the most rural counties also have the highest prevalence of obesity compared to urban women. To address these disparities, the overarching objective of this proposal is to develop a clinically effective and cost efficient strategy for delivering a weight control intervention to rural breast cancer survivors. Group phone-based treatment via conference call is a novel treatment delivery approach that the investigators have shown to be effective for initial weight loss among rural breast cancer survivors and more effective than the standard individual phone-based approach among rural women. This innovative method of providing group treatment addresses access barriers in rural areas and may be especially ideal for rural breast cancer survivors because it provides social support in conjunction with a level of anonymity. However, the impact of group phone counseling during extended care for weight loss maintenance beyond 6 months remains unknown. Weight loss maintenance is the more challenging phase of treatment when weight regain is common, and this regain presents a potential risk for breast cancer recurrence. This randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effects of group phone-based treatment for weight loss maintenance among rural breast cancer survivors, compared to an established mail-based education comparison condition, subsequent to a 6 month group phone-based weight loss phase for both conditions. In addition to the intervention impact on weight loss maintenance, the study will provide estimates of incremental cost-effectiveness per kg loss between the two conditions and the impact on secondary outcomes including quality of life, breast cancer risk biomarkers, dietary intake, and physical activity.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Survivorship Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Survivorship Intervention | Arm Label: Facing Forward; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Facing Forward | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Survivorship Intervention; Assigned to Arm(s): Survivorship Intervention | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Facing Forward; Assigned to Arm(s): Facing Forward
B: Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Pedometer; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Exercise guidebook; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A
C: Arm Label: Group (GRP) phone counseling; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Group phone counseling | Arm Label: Mail-based Comparison Condition; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Newsletter | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Group phone counseling; Assigned to Arm(s): Group (GRP) phone counseling | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Newsletter; Assigned to Arm(s): Mail-based Comparison Condition
D: Arm Label: Physical activity intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Physical activity | Arm Label: Usual care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Physical activity; Assigned to Arm(s): Physical activity intervention

Answer: C