mHealth Mindfulness With Patients With Serious Illness and Their Caregivers

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Caregiver Stress Syndrome, Anxiety

In brief

Older adults with serious illness and their caregivers have high rates of anxiety and limited access to effective, non-pharmacological treatments. A recent National Academy of Medicine report recommended increased emphasis on disseminating and implementing evidence-based psychotherapies in order to have maximal public health impact. Through this work, I will identify a sustainable and potentially scalable dyadic intervention and delivery model to manage symptoms of anxiety in older adults with serious illness and their caregivers in primary care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05040711

Run by

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

People needed

162

Starts

2022-04-26

Expected to finish

2026-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-24

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• adults 60+
• Diagnosis of or caregiver for individual with serious illnesses (e.g., ESRD, Cancer, CHF, COPD, Liver Disease)
• Hads-A > 8 for patient or caregiver
• Blessed<6
• fluent in English
• vision and hearing does not interfere with mobile device use
• caregivers who must be 21+
• caregiver must identify as primary source of informal care for patient
• Caregiver blessed <6
• caregiver is fluent in English
• Caregiver's vision and hearing does not interfere with mobile device use.

You may not qualify if…

• experience with mindfulness therapy in last 2 years
• not fluent in English
• vision or hearing that impairs use of mobile device
• cognitive impairment more than 6 on Blessed.

Where it is running

• RWJ Barnabas Outpatient Geriatric Clinics — Livingston, New Jersey, United States (enrolling)
• RWJB Outpatient Geriatrics — Monroe, New Jersey, United States (enrolling)
• Cancer Institute of New Jersey — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States (enrolling)

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