Expressive Writing in Improving the Wellbeing or Comforting Capacity of Caregivers of Patients With Cancer

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Caregiver

In brief

This randomized clinical trial studies expressive writing in improving the wellbeing or comforting capacity of caregivers of patients with cancer. Expressive writing is a type of intervention that asks people to write about important topics (in this case participants' experience with their spouses'/partners' cancer) and their emotions/feelings surrounding them. Expressive writing, including benefit finding and traumatic disclosure, may be a type of at-home-therapy that caregivers can utilize in an attempt to increase their own wellbeing, offer better comfort to cancer patients, and by association, help cancer patients cope with and manage the cancer experience.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02339870

Run by

University of Washington

People needed

100

Starts

2015-04-01

Expected to finish

2016-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-02-15

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants must be a spouse or domestic partner of a cancer survivor and will be recruited via the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Database at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC)
• Participants must have been in their spousal relationship for at least the past 1 year

You may not qualify if…

• If participants are unable to access a computer they will be excluded

Where it is running

• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium — Seattle, Washington, United States

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