Objectives
depression, mood and sleep, prostate cancer, anxiety
PROSTATE CANCER
The primary objective is to determine whether the addition to treatment as usual (TAU) of virtual self-help CBT, delivered by a patient’s existing prostate cancer CNS team, reduces the impact of HFNS at 6 months post-randomisation in men with prostate cancer undergoing ADT. Secondary objectives will determine the effect of the intervention on the severity of HFNS at 6 weeks post-randomisation and, additionally, the effect of the intervention on HFNS frequency; HFNS beliefs and behaviours and QoL. Other symptoms including anxiety, depression, mood and sleep and men’s compliance with ADT will be examined.A process evaluation will run parallel to the RCT. The purpose of the process evaluation is to explore the possible barriers and facilitators to implementing the intervention into routine practice, the prostate cancer CNS team’s experiences of introducing the intervention as a new treatment and participant acceptability of the intervention.The health economics of the intervention, the fidelity of the intervention delivery by the CNS team and the participant adherence to the trial intervention will be examined also.