Understanding the Psychosocial Needs of Parents Who Have Lost a Child to Cancer

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Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences and needs of parents who have lost a child to cancer. This will aid us in developing an intervention that may help parents cope with their loss.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Loss of a child to cancer between 6 months and 6 years ago
Loss of a child between the ages of 6 months and 25 years
Biological or adoptive parent or stepparent
Parent must be age 18 or over
In the judgment of investigators/consenting professionals able to comprehend English to complete study assessments
To be eligible for the qualitative interview, participants more score of 19 or less (< 19)or 34 or greater (> 34) on the PG-13 to qualify

Exclusion Criteria

Significant psychiatric disturbance sufficient, in the investigator's judgment, to preclude completion of the assessment measures, interview or informed consent.

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Parents Who Have Lost a Child to Cancer	Questionnaires/Interviews	The overall goal of the proposed cross-sectional study is to obtain information necessary to the development of an effective Meaning-Centered Grief Intervention for parents who lost a child to cancer. In order to identify a subset of parents with whom we will conduct qualitative interviews with a subset of participants to address Aims 1 and 2, we will first screen participants to determine their levels of Prolonged Grief Disorder symptoms using a quantitative assessment (PG-13). The screening measure (PG-13) and the additional questionnaires included in the quantitative battery of measures will be analyzed to achieve Aim 3.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Identify the unique qualitative themes related to finding meaning among parents who lost a child to cancer to inform development of a conceptually sound meaning-centered grief intervention.	2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Determine differences in qualitative themes of meaning in parents in the high and low Prolonged Grief Disorder subgroups to help select a target population for a meaning-centered grief intervention.	2 years
Explore and identify factors associated with bereaved parents' psychosocial service underutilization to guide the development of an acceptable and feasible meaning-centered grief intervention format.	2 years

Locations (2): NCI Clinical Center
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Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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New York, New York, United States

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