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The Wellness
Community-Greater Boston Participates in National Research Study to Measure Program Effectiveness in Cancer Patients and Caregivers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – OCTOBER, 12, 2007 – Today, The Wellness Community –Greater Boston (TWC) announced that it will participate in a national research study to measure the effectiveness of its social and emotional programs in cancer patients and caregivers at TWC over six months.
All people with cancer and all caregivers who enter TWC’s program over the next few months through one of five local centers nationwide will be asked to participate in the research study. The major purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of TWC’s support groups, education and stress management programs as well as to learn whether people participating in TWC’s programs for a six-month period experience:
“For more than 25 years nationally and 14 years locally, The Wellness Community has provided social and emotional support to people with cancer and their loved ones,” said Harriet Berman, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Clinical Programs at The Wellness Community – Greater Boston. “By participating in this study, we will help our organization evaluate our effectiveness to ensure we are providing the highest level of service and that participants are receiving the greatest benefit.”
The following TWCs will recruit for the study beginning October 8, 2007:
The Co-Principal Investigators of the five-center study will be Morton A. Lieberman Ph.D. in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of California, San Francisco, Andy Winzelberg, Ph.D., Research Consultant, TWC - National as well as TWC – National staff members, Mitch Golant Ph.D., Senior Vice President, National Research & Training Institute, and Vicki Kennedy, LCSW, Vice President, Program Development & Quality Assurance.
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