Stress Management Intervention for Caregivers of Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT)

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Hematopoietic/Lymphoid Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: A stress management intervention may be more effective than usual care in improving quality of life in caregivers of patients undergoing bone marrow transplant. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying a stress management intervention for caregivers of patients undergoing bone marrow transplant.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00833898
Run by: University of Colorado, Denver
People needed: 298
Starts: 2008-11-01
Expected to finish: 2013-06-01
Last updated by the study team: 2015-12-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS (Meets all of the following criteria):
Patient undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMt)
Primary caregiver of a BMT patient
Has provided care for the patient for at least 50 days of the required 100 days of caregiving following transplant (e.g., 50% of the total time)
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Able to read and speak English
Has telephone access
No serious medical condition likely to influence immune and neuroendocrine parameters (caregiver)
Alcohol consumption limited to < 2 drinks/day (caregiver)
No history of a psychiatric illness unrelated to the experience as a caregiver within the past 18 months (caregiver)
No history of a psychiatric illness unrelated to the BMT within the past 18 months (patient)

You may not qualify if…

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
No concurrent steroid medications (caregiver)

Where it is running

University of Colorado Cancer Center at UC Health Sciences Center — Aurora, Colorado, United States
Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center (PSLMC) - Denver Midtown — Denver, Colorado, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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