Recruitment
Cancer
MAY, RECURRENCE, CANCER
Eligible patients were recruited consecutively during their regular checkup at the outpatient clinic of a hospital or by sending them a comprehensive information letter by mail (differed because of pragmatic reasons) between April 2014 and May 2016. Participating hospitals (all situated in the Netherlands) were the Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam, St Antonius hospital in Utrecht, Admiraal de Ruyter hospital in Vlissingen, Reinier de Graaf hospital in Delft, Antonius hospital in Sneek, ETZ in Tilburg, Catharina hospital in Eindhoven, and UMCG in Groningen. After 2 weeks, patients were reminded of the study by the researcher. Patients who decided to participate, returned a signed informed consent form. On this form, they indicated whether they agreed to participate in the RCT or only to complete the Dutch version of the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI-NL) once [