Emotion Regulation and Cancer Caregiving

Completed

• Conditions: Cancer; Breast Cancer; Healthy; Emotions
• Interventions: Behavioral: Expressive Writing

• Registration Number: NCT06123416
• Lead Sponsor: Stanford University

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine how the behaviors of cancer caregivers can impact patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-01-16
• Study First Submitted: 2019-01-17
• Primary Completion: 2019-07-15
• Study Completion: 2019-07-15
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-11-02
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-08
• Last Update Posted: 2023-11-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

All participants must:

• Be 21 years or older
• Have access to a computer with internet access

Patients must:

• Be women
• Have a diagnosis of breast cancer (non-recurrent)

Caregivers must be:

-The patient's caregiver (providing support to the patient)

Exclusion Criteria

Participants must not be:

-Younger than 21 years

Patients must not:

• Be men
• Have a diagnosis other than breast cancer (non-recurrent)

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Expressive Writing Caregivers	Expressive Writing	Experimental participants will write about their thoughts and feelings about an emotionally difficult event three times.
Control Caregivers	Expressive Writing	Control participants will write about their daily and future tasks three times.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire	Baseline through 3 months post-intervention	Emotion regulation refers to the ways people influence which emotions they have, and how they experience and express these emotions. Participants will rate their habitual pursuit of pro-hedonic, contra-hedonic, pro-social, and impression management goals using the ERGS. The items will be rated on the same 7-point scale (1 = never; 7 = always).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Stanford University; 🇺🇸 Stanford, California, United States