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Breast CancerNCT00082654

Study of the Emotional Needs of Caregivers of Stem Cell Transplantation Patients

A study testing psychosocial assessment and care in people with Breast Cancer and Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders, run by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Understanding the emotional needs of spouses or others who are living with and caring for patients who have undergone stem cell transplantation may help improve the quality of life of both the caregivers and the patients. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 21 years and older
What is being tested?
psychosocial assessment and care
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
How many people
Not given
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Mar 2002to Oct 2004
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 21 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • In a marriage OR long-term, committed, heterosexual or homosexual, cohabiting relationship in which one member is post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Patients must meet the following criteria:
  • At least 1 year since prior first bone marrow, stem cell, or umbilical cord blood transplantation
  • Allogeneic or autologous
  • Diagnosis of malignancy, myelodysplasia, or non-malignancy
  • No indication of possible or confirmed relapse
  • Spouse/caregiver (CG) must meet the following criteria:
  • Serve as the primary CG to the patient
  • No prior or concurrent neurologic disorder

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 21 and over

Performance status

  • Not specified

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Not specified

Hepatic

  • Not specified

Renal

  • Not specified

Other

  • No concurrent major psychiatric disorder
  • English-speaking

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • See Disease Characteristics

Chemotherapy

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • Not specified

Surgery

  • Not specified

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Seattle, Washington, 98109-1024

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About this study

Official title: Emotional Needs of Caregivers and Patient/Spouse Couples During Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)

RATIONALE: Understanding the emotional needs of spouses or others who are living with and caring for patients who have undergone stem cell transplantation may help improve the quality of life of both the caregivers and the patients.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying the emotional needs of caregivers of patients who have undergone stem cell transplant.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Assess expression of emotion, as a function of patient presence, among spousal or other cohabiting caregivers (CG) of post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients.
  • Assess desynchrony among subjective (self-report) and expressive indicators of emotion, as a function of patient presence, in these participants.
  • Correlate CG dispositional inhibition and desynchrony with physical and marital satisfaction in these participants.

OUTLINE: Caregivers (CG) complete written questionnaires assessing demographics, positive and negative affect, dispositional inhibition, marital satisfaction, and physical health over 45 minutes to 1 hour on day 1. CG then engage in two oral emotional expression exercises (on the topic of caregiving and the transplant) over 2 hours on day 2. Patients are present for one oral emotional expression exercise.

Participants are followed at 2 weeks and 6 months.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 60 patient/spouse couples will be accrued for this study within 18 months.

Being tested
psychosocial assessment and care
Keywords
psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment, accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission, adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission, atypical chronic myeloid leukemia, blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, chronic eosinophilic leukemia, chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, de novo myelodysplastic syndromes, disseminated neuroblastoma, myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease, unclassifiable, noncontiguous stage II adult Burkitt lymphoma, noncontiguous stage II adult diffuse large cell lymphoma, noncontiguous stage II adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma, noncontiguous stage II adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma, noncontiguous stage II adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma, noncontiguous stage II adult lymphoblastic lymphoma
Medical subject headings
Breast Neoplasms, Myeloproliferative Disorders, Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, Neoplasms, Plasma Cell, Myelodysplastic Syndromes

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • psychosocial assessment and careProcedure or surgery

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted19 May 2004 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2002
  3. Primary completionOct 2004
  4. Study completionOct 2004

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00082654
Sponsor's protocol ID
1639.00
Other IDs
CDR0000355106
Status last verified
Sep 2010
First submitted
14 May 2004
Last updated
21 Sep 2010
Results posted
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing psychosocial assessment and care in people with Breast Cancer and Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders, run by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Sep 2010. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 21 Sep 2010.

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