Stress and Coping in Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 163
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Level of Caregiver Distress as measured by multiple regressions analysis
研究概览
简要总结
This research trial studies stress and coping in caregivers of younger patients with cancer. Learning how caregivers of children with cancer experience and cope with chronic stress may help to develop effective programs for reducing caregiver stress.
详细描述
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine how the experience of distress and use of positive emotion coping strategies by pediatric cancer caregivers differs from caregivers of children with no chronic illnesses.
II. To determine how relationships between positive coping strategies and caregiver distress change during the different phases of a child's illness.
III. To explore how chronic caregiver stress affects physiological reactivity to and recovery from an acute laboratory stressor.
IV. To explore how different positive coping mechanisms help chronically stressed caregivers recover from acute stressors and how these efficacies change during the different phases of the child's illness.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Ability to read and speak English
- •Must serve as a primary caregiver of their child (ages 0-17) - as reported by the participant
- •Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
排除标准
- •(Part 1 and Part 2): Must not have a family member who has already participated in the study
- •(Part 2): Must not be pregnant or have a history of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, pituitary disorder, or adrenal disorder
- •CONTROL PARTICIPANTS: (Part 1 and Part 2): Participants must not have a child with a chronic illness (e.g., diabetes, asthma, multiple sclerosis)
结局指标
主要结局
Level of Caregiver Distress as measured by multiple regressions analysis
时间窗: Up to 1 year
To examine whether coping styles alone predict psychosocial outcomes, a simple multiple regressions will be conducted with coping styles (approach and avoidant positive emotion coping strategies) as the predictors and the psychosocial outcomes as dependent variables. To examine whether treatment status moderates the impact of coping style on psychosocial outcomes, a multiple regressions with treatment status will be conducted, each coping style individually, and an interaction term of treatment status coping style in predicting each of the psychosocial outcomes.
次要结局
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