Caregiver Outlook: An Intervention to Improve Caregiving in Serious Illness

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure, Pulmonary Disease, Cancer

In brief

Informal caregivers provide a majority of care for patients during serious illness. Lack of preparation and completion may leave caregivers less capable of caring for a loved one or making crucial decisions influencing care. This study will examine whether a preparation and completion intervention reduces caregiver anxiety, depression, anticipatory grief, and burden and improves patient quality of life and health care use.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01672294

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

286

Starts

2013-06-01

Expected to finish

2016-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with advanced cancer/Congestive heart failure/COPD/End stage renal disease who have a primary caregiver. Caregivers of Durham VAMC patients with advanced disease.

You may not qualify if…

• No caregiver present.
• Caregiver with Cognitive impairment/inability to speak on phone/non-English speaking

Where it is running

• Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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