African American Families Fighting Parental Cancer Together
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Parental Stress
In brief
The purpose of this study is to test the usefulness of a family-based program for African American parents/primary caregivers with newly diagnosed solid tumor cancer and their adolescent children. The program is designed to promote family communication reduce and depressive symptoms for adolescence.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03567330
- Run by
- University of Delaware
- People needed
- 25
- Starts
- 2018-10-02
- Expected to finish
- 2024-06-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-11-22
Who can join
Age: 11 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Parents must identify as non-Hispanic Black
- Must be diagnosed for the first time with stage 0, I, II, or III solid tumor cancer (e.g., breast, prostate, colorectal, lung) or hematologic cancer in the last 24 months
- Must be parent or primary caregiver of at least 1 adolescent living (target child) at home (ages 11-21) who has been told about the diagnosis
You may not qualify if…
- Parents with serious mental health illness that prevents them from participating in the group sessions (e.g., clinically relevant depressive symptomatology as evidenced by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale >27)
- Parents with psychotic features or severe cognitive impairment
- Parents not fluent in English.
- Severely depressed adolescents (CDI-2; T-scores of 70 and higher on the total 28-item CDI-2 scale
- Severely anxious adolescents (RCMAS-2; We will use a cutoff score of 71 (T-score) or higher to screen out African American adolescents with severe anxiety) at baseline
- Adolescents with psychotic features
- Adolescents with cognitive impairment (e.g., mental retardation, severe developmental disorders) as evidenced by educational records, parental report and/or clinical impression
- Adolescents currently in active outpatient mental health treatment.
Where it is running
- Helen F Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute at Christiana Care — Newark, Delaware, United States
- Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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