Building Empowerment and Coping Outcomes for CaNcer Patients, Survivors and Their Caregivers (BEACON)

Color Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Caregiver Burnout; Survivorship; Cancer; Caregiving Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Cancer Connect Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06353178

20240314

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer has a psychological, emotional and social impact beyond a patient's physical health. This study examines three new online peer mental-wellness support program for cancer patients, survivors or their caregivers. Each program teaches evidence-based skills, in the context of that groups lived experience, to manage the emotional impact of cancer. This study examines the impact of that program.

Full description

Cancer has a psychological, emotional and social impact beyond a patient's physical health. These problems often ripple beyond the individual with the diagnosis, to their broader community, and also beyond a cancer treatment course into survivorship. As a result, there are a wide range of socioemotional needs in those who have been impacted by cancer. Further, these emotional impacts have a direct impact on morbidity and mortality of cancer. A new peer mental-wellness support program, called Color Cancer Connect (CCC) supports cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers by teaching them evidence-based skills to manage the emotional impact of cancer. This study will examine all three programs (i.e., patient, survivor, caregiver) to gather data to measure the impact of the program on emotional well-being, quality of life and health behaviors.

Enrollment: 133 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Lived experience as either a current cancer patient, cancer survivor or caregiver of someone with cancer
• Adult - 18+
• Has health insurance provided by employer or union (can be dependent of person on insurance)
• Read/speak English
• Have access to internet and personal email account

Exclusion criteria

• Severe mental illness that is disruptive to other group members

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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133 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Cancer Connect Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to this arm will be able to attend the online peer program upon entering the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cancer Connect Program

Waitlist

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants assigned to this arm will be on a waitlist and will be invited to join the online peer program in 3 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cancer Connect Program