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SmartCare: Innovations in Caregiving Interventions

NCT02058745 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 240

Last updated 2017-08-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a study to evaluate the effectiveness of using an established intervention for depressive symptom management in conjunction with a needs-based caregiver intervention for improving the psychological and physical health of family caregivers of persons recently diagnosed with a Primary Malignant Brain Tumor.

Conditions

  • Primary Malignant Brain Tumors

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CAU+ (Enhanced Care as Usual)

CAU+ is defined as the care received from the care recipient's oncologist supplemented by unlimited access to three components of the study website: caregiver guides, links to web-based resources, and a basic friends and family page. These resources are routinely available on the Internet. We provide these as a "one-stop shopping" resource in order to standardize care as usual for caregivers. All caregivers will be sent personalized e-mails from the project director every week during the intervention period.

BEHAVIORAL

Beating the Blues

Beating the Blues is an established, self-directed, web-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for managing depressive symptoms. Caregivers are asked to complete 8 weekly sessions, each lasting approximately 50 minutes. Participants are also given simple "homework" after each lesson.

BEHAVIORAL

SmartCare

SmartCare is a web-based, nurse guided intervention for caregivers based on the Representational Approach of symptom management. The RA builds on traditional cognitive-behavioral interventions by promoting in depth reflection of previous and current experiences, beliefs, and knowledge (referred to as representations) prior to providing new information or engaging in problem-solving.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paula R Sherwood, PhD · University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing

  • Heidi S Donovan, PhD · University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-01
Primary Completion
2017-06-14
Completion
2017-06-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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