NCT02596490Recruiting
Couple-Based Meditation for Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients and Their Partners
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Objectives: Our specific aims are to: Aim 1: Examine the feasibility of a couple-based meditation program in 50 patients with metastatic lung cancer and their partners. Aim 2: Establish the initial efficacy of a couple-based meditation program in patients and their partners regarding physical, psychological, and spiritual quality of life outcomes.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 29 Oct 2015
- Start date
- 6 Apr 2016
- Primary completion date
- 1 Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Lung cancer
- NCT number
- NCT02596490
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 300
- From 6 Apr 2016 to the primary completion date, 1 Dec 2026
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS AND PARTNERS: Prior enrollment in a couple-based mind-body intervention research study (protocols 2011-1179, 2013-0496, 2014-0036) conducted by the principal investigator including phase 1 or phase 2 of the current study.
Other illness
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS AND PARTNERS: Regular (self-defined) participation in psychotherapy or a formal cancer support group
Other
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS AND PARTNERS: Not oriented to time, place, or person as deemed by the clinical team
Who the study is looking for
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS ONLY: Diagnosed with stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS ONLY: Currently receiving treatment (e.g. radiotherapy, chemotherapy) at MD Anderson Cancer Center
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS ONLY: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of less than or equal to 2
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS ONLY: Have a romantic partner with whom they have resided for a minimum of 6 months
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS AND PARTNERS: Must be at least 18 years old
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS AND PARTNERS: Able to read and speak English
- ALL PHASES, PATIENTS AND PARTNERS: Able to provide consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| Memorial Hermann Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
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