{"doi":"10.1002/pon.70023","title":"Personality Feedback With Tailored Self‐Care Recommendations Improves Self‐Efficacy for Cancer Management: A Randomized Controlled Trial","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: To test whether a personality feedback intervention improves three domains of cancer self-management: self-awareness, self-efficacy, and positive affect. METHODS: From 11/2020-02/2021, 372 adults diagnosed with cancer participated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an intervention that entailed reading a brief personality-related excerpt during an online survey. Eligibility included self-reported age ≥ 18 years, current or past cancer diagnosis, and ability to read English. The survey included a baseline assessment with a personality questionnaire, then randomized participants to one of two groups. The intervention group (n = 184) received a personality feedback report with tailored self-care tips, whereas the control group (n = 188) received a generic reading on personality theory. At the end of the survey, participants completed outcome measures of self-awareness (primary), self-efficacy for illness management, and positive affect. General linear models tested between-group differences in changes from baseline to post-test on each outcome. RESULTS: There was no intervention effect on self-awareness (primary outcome) or positive affect. However, compared to controls, intervention participants experienced a greater increase in self-efficacy for illness management (d = 0.33, p = 0.002), including in 2 of 3 constituent domains: self-efficacy for managing symptoms (d = 0.36, p < 0.001) and self-efficacy for managing treatments/medication (d = 0.22, p = 0.035). CONCLUSION: Despite the primary outcome's null results, this was the first RCT of a personality feedback intervention to show improvements in self-efficacy for managing chronic illness. Given the important role of self-efficacy in self-management, the intervention has implications for other cancer outcomes. Follow-up studies on longer-term outcomes such as health behaviors and quality of life should be explored. TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT04625439.","journal":"Psycho-Oncology","year":2024,"id":474505,"datarank":0.11363068533769596,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.009658608253704156,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.009658608253704156,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":1,"citers_with_citation_signal":1,"citers_with_endowment":1,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9474,"is_data_producer":true,"deposit_databanks":{"ClinicalTrials.gov":["NCT04625439"]},"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":794080,"name":"Brenna Mossman","orcid":"0000-0002-3343-111X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":280771,"name":"Sofia F. Garcia","orcid":"0000-0003-3300-385X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":568384,"name":"Sheetal Kircher","orcid":"0000-0002-3429-6378","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1311433,"name":"Addison Dunn","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":664487,"name":"Sarah Alonzi","orcid":"0000-0001-8775-7281","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":789247,"name":"Sanjana Easwar","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":516073,"name":"Michael Hoerger","orcid":"0000-0002-4398-2820","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":516071,"name":"Laura M. Perry","orcid":"0000-0001-6144-6266","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":43,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:06:13.042906Z","pmid":"39547948","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}