Digital Stories and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Stem Cell Transplant Patients

Overview

Información sobre este estudio

The proposed research will use a double-blind randomized controlled design to pilot test a model for how stories shared by a panel of HCT survivors impact the psychosocial well-being of the digital stories (DS) intervention condition of 55 patients who recently underwent HCT and their respective caregivers compared with 55 people in an information control (IC) condition and their caregivers (total 220 participants; N=110 per condition). Participants, recruited from the Mayo Clinic Arizona Cancer Center, will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the DS intervention or the IC video condition. Participants will questionnaires at baseline (T1), after the 4-week intervention (T2), and 3 months (100 days) later (T3).

Elegibilidad para la participación

Los requisitos de elegibilidad de los participantes incluyen la edad, el sexo, el tipo y el estadio de la enfermedad, y los problemas de salud o tratamientos previos. Las pautas difieren de un estudio a otro e identifican quiénes pueden o no pueden participar. No hay garantía de que cada persona elegible que desee participar en un ensayo se inscribirá. Comunícate con el equipo del estudio para analizar la elegibilidad del estudio y la posible participación.

Criteria

Subject population (children, adults, groups): All patients and caregivers undergoing HCT at Mayo Clinic in Arizona for hematological disorders.

Inclusion (patients):

  • recently underwent HCT (within a month after hospital discharge)
  • are able to speak, read, and write in English
  • are 18 years or older
  • have access to a working phone and e-mail account.

Inclusion (caregivers):

  • family caregivers who are identified as a primary caregiver by a patient, and have primary responsibility for the care of patients throughout the HCT process, including basic medical procedures, taking the patient to and from the hospital frequently as well as other household and other role responsibilities
  • are able to speak, read, and write in English
  • are 18 years or older
  • have access to a working phone and e-mail account.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants who are not identified as primary caregivers
  • Participants with a visual or hearing impairment

Sedes participantes de Mayo Clinic

Los estatus de los estudios cambian con frecuencia. Comunícate con el equipo del estudio para obtener la información más actualizada acerca de la posibilidad de participar.

Sede de Mayo Clinic Estatus Contacto

Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz.

Investigador principal de Mayo Clinic

Nandita Khera, M.D., M.P.H.

Cerrado para la inscripción

Contact information:

Cancer Center Clinical Trials Referral Office

855-776-0015

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