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Enhancing Adjustment to Parental Cancer: Short-term Counselling for Families

NCT03097458 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 11

Last updated 2020-07-07

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Summary

A parental cancer diagnosis challenges the family's stability and the parent-child relationship. It may impact the children's well-being, so that about one third of them develop clinically relevant levels of psychological distress. Psycho-oncological family-based counselling programs have been shown to elevate children's and parents' well-being. However, there is still a dearth of familial health services in Switzerland, which has also been recognized by the Swiss National Cancer Program (2011-2017).

This study aims to implement and evaluate a short-term family counselling intervention at the Cancer Center of the University Hospital Basel. The primary objective of the study is the enhancement of adjustment to the parental cancer diagnosis. The study seeks secondary to determine the feasibility of the short-term counselling Intervention.

Conditions

  • Psychological Adjustment
  • Cancer

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Short-term Counselling for Families

Counselling for Families which can take up to 6 weeks, with regular meetings under the guidance of a trained psychotherapist.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • propatient Forschungsstiftung

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Corinne Urech, Dr. phil. · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-04
Primary Completion
2019-09-01
Completion
2019-09-01

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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Diseases

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