Online Program for Colorectal Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers
Tests a web-based program for people with colorectal cancer on chemotherapy and their caregivers.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: A Web-Based Dyadic Intervention for Colorectal Cancer
Key facts
- Where
- Atlanta, United StatesSee the site
Where in United States
- Emory University/Winship Cancer InstituteAtlanta, United StatesTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Emory University
- Trial code
- NCT05663203
- Record updated
- 5 November 2026
- Original description
This clinical trial studies how well a web-based dyadic intervention works to manage psychoneurological symptoms for patients with colorectal cancer and their caregivers. Patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy experience severe and distressing psychoneurological symptoms that include fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance, pain, and cognitive dysfunction. When these co-occurring symptoms are undertreated, they negatively affect functional status, survival rates, and quality of life of patients as well as decrease health outcomes of their family caregiver. A critical need exists to develop an effective and novel intervention that focuses on patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy and their caregivers. A web-based dyadic intervention holds great promise to reduce psychoneurological symptoms burden and improve quality of life for patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy and advance intervention development and implementation in cancer supportive care and health equity.Read full original descriptionShow less
A Web-Based Dyadic Intervention to Manage Psychoneurological Symptoms for Patients With Colorectal Cancer and Their Caregivers
This clinical trial studies how well a web-based dyadic intervention works to manage psychoneurological symptoms for patients with colorectal cancer and their caregivers. Patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy experience severe and distressing psychoneurological symptoms that include fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance, pain, and cognitive dysfunction. When these co-occurring symptoms are undertreated, they negatively affect functional status, survival rates, and quality of life of patients as well as decrease health outcomes of their family caregiver. A critical need exists to develop an effective and novel intervention that focuses on patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy and their caregivers. A web-based dyadic intervention holds great promise to reduce psychoneurological symptoms burden and improve quality of life for patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy and advance intervention development and implementation in cancer supportive care and health equity.
Inclusion: Patients:; Age >= 18 years; Diagnosed with colorectal cancer; Life expectancy > 12 months; Receiving active chemotherapy; Self-reported at least two psychoneurological symptoms (based on the symptom measures' cutoff scores); Identified primary caregiver (i.e., family members or significant others identified by the patients as their primary source of emotional and physical support); Access to the Internet; Fluent in English; Caregivers:; Age >= 18 years; Primary caregiver; Access to the Internet; Fluent in English.
Exclusion: Have severe diseases (e.g., cancer, heart disease); Patients:; Karnofsky Performance Scale < 50; Caregivers:.