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Experience of Having Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

NCT00353106 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 187

Last updated 2012-07-30

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Summary

Primary Objectives:

1. To explore the experience of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) following allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation from the perspective of the patient and the patient's primary family caregiver.
2. To develop and validate an instrument to measure the severity of multiple symptoms and the impact of these symptoms on daily functioning in patients who have cGVHD.

Secondary Objectives:

1. To develop a detailed description of the experience of having cGVHD.
2. To develop a detailed description of the symptom experience of cGVHD to allow for development of a symptoms instrument for cGVHD.
3. To assess the understanding of questions to measure the symptoms of cGVHD in patients with various levels of education.
4. To develop a detailed description of caring for a patient with cGVHD.

Conditions

  • Graft-Versus-Host Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interview

30-minute interviews of participating patients and their caregiver(s).

BEHAVIORAL

Questionnaire

Questionnaires that will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Loretta A. Williams, DSN · M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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