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Improving Self-Management in Head and Neck Cancer

NCT02409485 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2020-01-18

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Summary

By teaching skills to improve the coordination of care and support in couples coping with head and neck cancer (HNC), this couple-based psychosocial intervention holds great promise for improving self-management, reducing costly hospitalizations and treatment interruptions, and improving both partners' quality of life. Home-based delivery will enhance future dissemination and outreach to those who do not have access to psychosocial services or live far away from their care centers. If found effective, the intervention may also have salutary downstream effects on the health and well-being of HNC patients and their partners.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Couples Skill-Training (CST)

Patients and partners each receive a workbook and 6 one-hour telephone sessions with a Masters level trained interventionist. Manual content is tailored based on role (patient or partner). Couples participate together via speaker phone for half the sessions and patients and partners receive separate (individual) intervention calls for the other half of the sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Baylor College of Medicine

    lead OTHER

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Hoda Badr, PhD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-11-30
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2019-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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