Online Problem Solving Skills Training

Summary

Parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer experience depression and anxiety, especially in the first several months of treatment. Bright IDEAS, an 8-session problem-solving skills training (PSST) program has been used in studies with more than 900 mothers including more than 125 monolingual Spanish-speaking mothers. It has been shown to significantly decrease mothers' distress and to particularly benefit Latina immigrants. This past spring, the NCI/NIH designated Bright IDEAS as a Research-Tested Intervention Program and has included it in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. To date, Bright IDEAS has been available to mothers at only a few cancer centers with specially trained personnel. This proposal is designed to bring Bright IDEAS on-line to make it available to mothers and fathers 24/7 anywhere with Internet access. The investigators will carefully analyze acceptability and use to gain insight into the most promising ways of disseminating interventions like Bright IDEAS using Internet, Internet II, and other emerging technologies.

Conditions

• Childhood Cancer

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Problem-Solving Skills Training

8-session manualized intervention to provide problem-solving skills training in the context of childhood cancer.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Texas, El Paso

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Colorado, Denver

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Pittsburgh

  collaborator OTHER

• Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital Los Angeles

  collaborator OTHER

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Rochester

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Olle Jane Z Sahler, MD · University of Rochester

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-07-31

Primary Completion

2019-04-30

Completion

2019-04-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations