NCT03454295CompletedEarly phase 1
Easing Psychosocial Burden for Informal Caregivers
Improving Palliative Care of Caregivers of Patients With Glioblastoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Apr 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall goal of this study is to determine the best time to offer Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), an intervention that has proven to be helpful in improving spiritual well-being and decreasing existential distress among patients with advanced cancer, to caregivers. (MCP has also been shown to be an appropriate method of attending to the palliative or comfort care needs of caregivers of patients with cancer. Studies show that the psychological burden associated with caring for a patient with advanced cancer is often greater than that experienced by the patients themselves.) The investigators would also like to find out about caregivers initial impressions of MCP-C, Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers, so that the intervention can be adjusted to meet the unique needs of caregivers of patients with Glioblastoma.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Early phase 1
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 64 (actual)
- First submitted
- 14 Feb 2018
- Start date
- 12 Feb 2018
- Primary completion date
- 26 Mar 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Glioblastoma
- NCT number
- NCT03454295
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Early phase 1
- Participants enrolled: 64
- From 12 Feb 2018 to the primary completion date, 26 Mar 2024
- 3 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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Other illness
- In the judgment of the consenting professional, clinician or PI and/or as per medical record, severe psychopathology or cognitive impairment likely to interfere with the participation or completion of the protocol or ability to provide meaningful information
Other
- Another family member of caregiver to the same patients is currently enrolled in the study
- Ultimately, if interested, all caregivers who decline participation or are ineligible for the study for any reason, including because another caregiver of the patient is currently enrolled in the study, will be offered referrals to the MSKCC Counseling Center and to local mental health providers
Who the study is looking for
- Part I Focus group GBM informal caregivers (ICs):
- English-speaking as English proficiency screener and in the best judgment of the consenting professional. This is due to the focus groups being managed in English and the use of certain validated questionnaires only being available in English.
- Age \> 18
- IC to an MSKCC patient with GBM who died a year or more ago
- Part II Randomized Intervention of GBM ICs:
- English-speaking as per English proficiency screener and in the best judgment of the consenting professional
- Current ICs to a patient with GBM
- Age ≥ 18
- Score of \> 4 on the Distress Thermometer (DT) and indication that this distress is related in some way to the caregiving role per self-report
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack (Consent only) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Commack | United States | Unknown status |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Harrison | United States | Unknown status |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
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