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Perceptions of Burden in Patients With Late-Stage Cancer and Their Caregivers

NCT00770419 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Last updated 2015-05-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Gathering information over time about patients' sense of being a burden on their caregiver, and caregivers' sense of burden on themselves, may help doctors learn more about the desire to die in patients with late-stage cancer.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying perceptions of burden in patients with late-stage cancer and their caregivers.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

medical chart review

OTHER

questionnaire administration

PROCEDURE

psychosocial assessment and care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

    collaborator OTHER

  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Linda Patrick-Miller, PhD · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-02-28

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