Online class to support caregivers of young people with chronic pain
Tests an online class for caregivers of children and teens with chronic pain.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Stanford University
- Where
- Palo Alto, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Empowered Relief for Caregivers
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 80 people, planned
- Started
- Oct 2026
- Expected to end
- Sept 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Empowered Relief for Caregivers (ER-CY)
- Record updated
- 20 August 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who care for a child or teen with chronic pain. They join one 2-hour online class about coping with caregiving stress.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Disease stage
- The child must have a chronic pain diagnosis lasting more than 3 months.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Serious mental health or social difficulties, as judged by the clinical team
- For example, severe depression or anxiety
- Not able to cope with a group setting
- Not English speaking
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Caregiver of a youth with a chronic pain diagnosis (>3 months in duration)
- English speaking
Who cannot take part
- Significant psychosocial complexity based on clinical team assessment (e.g., severe depression/anxiety, unable to tolerate a group setting)
Where in United States
- Stanford UniversityPalo Alto, United StatesContact: Jeremy GibersonNot yet recruiting
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This study is testing a new program called Empowered Relief for Caregivers (ER-CY), designed to support caregivers of children and teens who live with chronic pain. ER-CY is a single two-hour class delivered online. It teaches skills for managing the stress of caring for a child in pain and for responding to a child's pain in helpful ways.
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Up to 80 caregivers of youth with chronic pain will take part in one ER-CY class and then complete surveys and a short interview over the following three months. The researchers want to learn two things: whether caregivers are willing and able to take part and find the program helpful and satisfying, and whether the program lowers caregiver distress and improves their child's day-to-day functioning. What is learned will help guide future programs and care for youth with chronic pain and their families.
The group in the trial
- Empowered Relief for Caregivers (ER-CY)Treatment being tested
Participants in this single-group study attend one approximately two-hour Empowered Relief for Caregivers class, a co-designed, skills-based intervention delivered virtually via Zoom. The class teaches caregivers of youth with chronic pain strategies to manage their own distress and to respond adaptively to their child's pain. All enrolled participants receive the ER-CY intervention; there is no comparison arm.
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?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Empowered Relief for Caregivers (ER-CY): A Co-Designed Brief Intervention to Support Families of Youth With Chronic Pain
- Plain-language title
- Online class to support caregivers of young people with chronic painGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 20 August 2026