Study Segrin et al. (2005): study US 2000

Public

Breast cancer patients and partners, USA, 2000.

Sample

Respondents

N = 96

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
The experimental group received a weekly call between T1. T2

Correlate

Authors's Label

Counseling program

Our Classification

Remarks

T1 baseline, T2 6 weeks, T3 10 weeks

Related specification variables

Operationalization

The women and their partners were randomly assigned to participate in one of two different 6 week counseling programs, after wich they once again completed the measures over the phone at T2.
The other half of the sample was assigned to an attentinal control condition in wich the women with breast cancer also received six weekly calls and their partners received two bimonthy calls.
However, their was no substantive counseling offered in these brief contacts.

Observed Relation with Happiness