Parent FORT
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Dr. Sophie Lebel is a clinical health psychologist with a Ph.D. from Université de Montréal, Québec.
Her research interests focus on cancer survivors and their families, with a focus on developing and testing questionnaires, models, and interventions for fear of cancer recurrence, sexuality, fatigue, stigma, and dyadic adjustment.
Dr. Lebel’s laboratory is currently adapting the FORT intervention for parents of child cancer survivors. With the guidance of a parent advisory, Dr. Lebel’s team is in the process of adapting both the FORT therapist and patient manuals.
Upon its completion, we will conduct a usability study to determine the usefulness, usability, desirability, value, accessibility, and credibility of the adapted FORT intervention (Parent-FORT).
Following a successful usability study, Dr. Lebel’s team will move forward with a pilot study of Parent-FORT using a randomized control trial design. This project is one of the first to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a fear of recurrence intervention for parents of childhood cancer survivors.
This will help bridge an important gap in bringing evidence-based care to parents who have never been offered help before for their fear of cancer recurrence.
