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A Psychological Intervention for Family Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients

NCT04076670 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 154

Last updated 2019-09-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This work aims to study the benefits a psychological intervention in family caregivers of palliative care patients can have for reducing anxiety, depression and overburden.

A parallel randomized controlled trial of two groups was performed. Information was collected on 154 family caregivers of patients at the end of life during the moments before and after the intervention.

Conditions

  • Palliative Care

Interventions

OTHER

Psychological intervention for family caregivers of patients at the end of life

The intervention protocol is a structured programme within the framework of counselling, that aims to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as symptoms of burden (overburden).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Valencia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pilar Barreto Martin, PhD · Universitat de València

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-31
Primary Completion
2019-05-31
Completion
2019-07-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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