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A Psychosocial Intervention for Patients With Colorectal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers

NCT04159363 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2019-11-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to develop a smartphone-based psychosocial intervention for patients with colorectal cancer and their family caregivers and to improve patients' confidence in self-care, psychological well-being, social support, quality of life, and satisfaction with care, as well as caregivers' burden, psychological well-being, and quality of life. The study also aims to explore patients' and their caregivers' perceptions of the intervention and routine care. A multi-centre two-arm experimental study design is used in this study. A total of 100 patient-caregiver dyads will be recruited and randomly allocated to either the control group (receiving routine care alone) or the intervention group (receiving routine care plus the psychosocial intervention). After completed the study, 15 patient-caregiver dyads will be invited for interviews to explore their perceptions on the intervention and/or routine care. This study will generate evidence on the effectiveness of the easily accessible and sustainable smartphone-based psychosocial intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

An interactive Colorectal Cancer self-Management enhancement smartphone-based psychosocial intervention programme (iCanManage)

The iCanManage consists of two components: (1a) Existing functions from the BuddyCare mobile application that provide a comprehensive 29 day-by-day perioperative guide for patients who will be undergoing colorectal elective surgery; (1b) a dashboard for healthcare professionals to monitor patients and their caregivers' well-being as well as allow mutual communication; and (2) Newly developed digitalised psychosocial content (e.g., mindfulness-based activities with audio cover, video materials related to positive psychology, patient ambassadors' success stories and relevant psychoeducation) tailored for colorectal cancer patients and caregivers, with the aim of providing them emotional and psychosocial support.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National University Hospital, Singapore

    collaborator OTHER

  • Singapore General Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Singapore Cancer Society

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hong-Gu HE, PhD · National University of Singapore

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-01
Primary Completion
2021-01-31
Completion
2021-01-31

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