NCT06968468Not yet recruiting
Resiliency Intervention for Patients With ALS and Their Care-Partners
Resilient Together-ALS (RT-ALS): A Dyadic Mind-body Meaning Intervention for People With ALS and Their Informal Care-partners
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to pilot a resiliency and coping intervention for persons recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and their primary informal caregivers. The data investigators gather in this study will be used to further refine our intervention.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 20 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 5 May 2025
- Start date
- 13 May 2026
- Primary completion date
- 13 Feb 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Diseases
- ALS (motor neurone disease)
- NCT number
- NCT06968468
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 20
- From 13 May 2026 to the primary completion date, 13 Feb 2027
- 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
- patient with ALS with comorbid terminal diagnosis or severe mental health disorder that limits ability to participate (by self-report, as determined by our clinical team);
- cognitive disorder that limits ability to participate (per neurologist)
Other
- inability or unwillingness to use live video technology (will teach any dyads who have low technology literacy how to use live video technology)
Who the study is looking for
- recent (within \~2 months) of first appointment at Healey Center for diagnosis of ALS documented in Epic (based on recommendations from neurologists)
- ability to understand the study and research protocol as determined by a standardized teach-back method of assessment
- ability to communicate by writing, speaking, or assistive communication device
- English speaking adults
- dyad lives together
- at least one partner endorses clinically significant emotional distress during screening (\>7 on either subscale of the HADS)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
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