Caregiver Support in the Coping of Patients Who Are Undergoing a Donor Bone Marrow Transplant

NeuroTherapia, Inc.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm; Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders; Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment; Lymphoma; Leukemia; Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Diseases; Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Treatments: Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00281814

P30CA043703 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

CASE-CCF-6950

CASE-CCF-1035

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Questionnaires that measure coping may improve the ability to plan supportive care for patients undergoing donor bone marrow transplant.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying coping in patients who are undergoing a donor bone marrow transplant.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

• Investigate the relative importance of having a consistent inpatient lay care-partner for patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, in terms of the effects on modes of adjustment to illness and survival.

OUTLINE: Patients undergo a 40-minute recorded oral interview in person to provide personal and social demographic data using a 20-item questionnaire (The Adjustment to Illness Questionnaire-Bone Marrow Transplantation) at baseline (pre-transplant) and at day 100 post-transplant.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Medically suitable for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Resides locally in the Cleveland, Ohio area

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• Not specified