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Caregivers' Strengths-Skills: Managing Older Cancer Patients' Symptoms

NCT03532061 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2022-11-03

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Summary

Caregiver education and training programs that specifically target caregiver informational and training needs during the survivorship period have been limited. In recognition of families' direct involvement in health care decision-making, health advocacy and care provision, programs are needed that can maximize families' caregiving abilities and skills and provide them with the information and resources they may need to identify and address elderly cancer patients' post-treatment symptom management. The goal of this study was to implement and evaluate the efficacy of a short-term problem-solving skills training program (relative to participating in a caregiver support group) for familial caregivers to lower income older (55+) post-treatment cancer patients.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

FamCare Program

6 in-person sessions of biweekly home care problem-solving skills training (FamCare) delivered by a health educator.

OTHER

Caregiver Support Group

6 in-person caregiver support group sessions held biweekly and moderated by a health educator.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • New York University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Victoria H. Raveis, PhD · New York University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-08-07
Primary Completion
2011-04-14
Completion
2011-07-31

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