Mindfulness Meditation Intervention for Colorectal Cancer Patients and Caregivers
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer
In brief
This is a audio based mindfulness meditation intervention for colorectal cancer patients and caregivers. A 8-week single arm study will be conducted among University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) patients with metastatic colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy and caregivers of these patients (44 participants total).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02423720
- Run by
- University of California, San Francisco
- People needed
- 53
- Starts
- 2015-04-28
- Expected to finish
- 2017-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-02-23
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Eligible patients must:
- Carry a diagnosis of metastatic colon, rectum, or small bowel adenocarcinoma
- Anticipate receiving chemotherapy for at least 12 weeks total from the time of recruitment
- Have life expectancy of at least 6 months
- Have Karnofsky Performance Status ≥60
- Be able to speak and read English
- Have access to a mobile phone
- Be able to navigate websites, fill out forms on the web, communicate by email, and have regular access to the internet
- Have a distress level of ≥3 on the NCCN Distress Thermometer (DT).[1, 40]
- An effort will always be made to recruit patient and caregiver pairs, but unpaired patients are also eligible
- Eligible caregivers are a spouse/partner, other family member, or a close friend of a patient with metastatic colon, rectum, or small bowel adenocarcinoma.
- Eligible caregivers must:
- Be able to speak and read English
- Have access to a mobile phone
- Be able to navigate websites, fill out forms on the web, communicate by email, and have regular access to the internet
You may not qualify if…
- This study is limited the study to patients with metastatic colon, rectum, or small bowel adenocarcinoma, because treatment regimens and disease trajectories for these disease groups are similar.
- Deafness, Current meditation practice (>2 episodes or >1 hour total, weekly), and current enrollment in a stress reduction program are exclusion criteria for the intervention study because the study is designed as an audio-based introduction to mindfulness meditation.
- Patients with a DT level >7 will be considered on a case-by- case basis. Patients and caregivers who participate in a focus group and meet criteria for the intervention will be given the opportunity to participate: data will be collected, but these patients/participants will not be included in the final analyses so as not to bias the results.
Where it is running
- University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
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