NCT06326437Completed
Dyadic Intervention for Psychological Distress of Patients With Colorectal Cancer and Their Spouses
The Effects of Dyadic Intervention for Young and Middle-aged Couples Facing Colorectal Cancer: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 16 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of a dyadic intervention on mutuality, psychological strengths (i.e., illness cognition and dyadic coping), illness-related communication, psychological distress, and QoL outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer and spouses. The colorectal cancer couples were randomly allocated to the intervention group to receive a 6-week dyadic intervention, or to the control group to receive the usual care provided by the clinical team in the hospital.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 90 (actual)
- First submitted
- 16 Mar 2024
- Start date
- 1 May 2024
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Sun Yat-sen University
- Diseases
- Colorectal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06326437
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 90
- From 1 May 2024 to the primary completion date, 1 Jul 2025
- 1 site 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
- psychiatric problems requiring active treatment other terminal illnesses, such as advanced cancer currently undergoing psychotherapy or participating in similar trials
Who the study is looking for
- patients and spouses aged 20 years or older patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer within the past year Patients scored ≥ 22 points on the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale assessment patients and spouses able to read simplified Chinese
Age in the registry: 20 years to 59 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
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