Couples and Cancer: Building Partner Efficacy in Caring
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 228
- 试验地点
- 6
- 主要终点
- Acute effects of massage on patient symptoms as assessed by the weekly Study Report card
研究概览
简要总结
RATIONALE: A multimedia education program for family caregivers that teaches simple methods of touch and massage for the comfort of cancer patients at home may be effective in lowering stress, reducing symptoms, and improving quality of life for patients; and may improve caregiver satisfaction and self-efficacy.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well multimedia instruction of caregivers in use of touch and massage works for cancer patients and their care partners.
详细描述
OBJECTIVES:
Primary
- Produce a multimedia program to deliver instructional content in massage for cancer patients and their lay care partners.
- Determine the effects of the multimedia program on care partner esteem and stress and on the frequency and duration of the care partner's provision of their assigned form of support to the patient.
- Determine the effects of the multimedia program on patient symptom levels, functional quality of life, perceived stress, and physiologic indices of stress.
Secondary
- Examine the impact of the multimedia program on care partner concerns about use of touch as a form of support, and on self-efficacy in massage.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 21 Years 至 120 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Acute effects of massage on patient symptoms as assessed by the weekly Study Report card
Longitudinal effects of massage on patient symptoms as assessed by the weekly Study Report card
Frequency and duration of care partner providing the assigned form of support as assessed by the weekly Study Report card
Care partner esteem as assessed by a 7-item esteem subscale of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment at baseline and then at 12 and 24 weeks
Patient physiological stress measures as assessed by measuring diurnal variation in cortisol and DHEA at baseline and then at 12 and 24 weeks
Patient and care partner perceived stress as assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale at baseline and then at 12 and 24 weeks
Patient functional quality of life as assessed by FACT-G at baseline and then at 12 and 24 weeks
次要结局
- Care partner self-efficacy and concerns about using touch as support as assessed by an investigator-generated survey at baseline and then at 12 and 24 weeks
- Care partner utilization of multimedia materials as assessed by the weekly Study Report card
研究者
William Collinge, PhD
President
Collinge and Associates, Inc.