Advanced Gynecological Cancer Clinical Trial
Official title:
Self-Management of Stress in Caregivers of Cancer Patients
Caregivers of persons with cancer may face many challenges as they support and care for a person receiving treatment. Sometimes having to help make treatment decisions for a patient can cause distress for caregivers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate 2 different electronic approaches to providing support for a caregiver. One group will have access to an on-line program with videos, providing education on decision making strategies for caregivers of patients with cancer, to watch and a daily meditation application and the other group will have access to the daily meditation application. Investigators will randomly assign participants to each group.
Investigators will conduct a randomized trial pilot study to examine two arms of the
intervention among 20 caregivers of patients with advanced cancer. Investigators will collect
mixed methods data to describe changes in proximal and distal outcomes. Investigators have
chosen the time points to capture neural and behavioral changes associated with the
intervention and to capture end of life quality of life (QOL) for a majority of caregivers
after death of their loved one. Investigators aim to:
1. Evaluate the short and longer-term effects of the end of life care with medication
(EOL_M) and meditation only (M_Only) interventions on stress reduction and end of life
(EOL) planning behaviors and determine if there are different effects between EOL_M and
M_ Only interventions.
2. Evaluate the short-term and long-term effects of the intervention on caregiver distress,
decisional regret, and EOL values and goals of care for treatment.
3. Evaluate the impact of decentering on the association between the interventions,
self-management behaviors (stress reduction and EOL planning behaviors) and distress,
anxiety, concordance between EOL values and goals of care for treatment, decisional
regret and satisfaction with EOL care.
4. Describe the neural activity processes that are associated with increased
self-management activities.
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