Study design
cancer, breast cancer
CANCER, RECRUITMENT, MAY, BREAST CANCER
To compare structured short-term psychotherapy with a non-specific group discussion during cancer rehabilitation, a randomized controlled trial was conducted. The patients completed questionnaires at the beginning and end of rehabilitation and three months after rehabilitation. The study was run at a German inpatient rehabilitation center in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania providing rehabilitation for breast cancer survivors. Recruitment took place from March 2019 to January 2020, and participants were followed up until May 2020. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committees of the University of Lubeck (19–094) and Greifswald University Medicine (BB 062/19). The trial was registered in the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00017571; 08/07/2019). The article was prepared according to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) [