Decrease Caregiving Fatigue in Group Leaders of a Support Group for Women After Cancer (GLOW)

Wuerzburg University Hospital

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Caregiver Burden

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-compassion training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06937606

171/23-am

Details and patient eligibility

About

This exploratory study aims to evaluate the effect of a self-compassion training developed for health professionals on leaders of self-help groups.

Hypothesis/primary goal: An online group intervention adapted from the "Self-compassion for health-care communities program" validated for health professionals leads to an increase in self-compassion among leaders of cancer self-help groups. Secondary goals: level of self-compassion at the end of the course as a mediator for therapeutic variables after 6 weeks, decrease in caregiver fatigue, secondary traumatic stress/burnout risk, personal distress and sick leave, decrease in fears of self-compassion/compassion for others; increase in mindfulness, self-efficacy, compassion for others and resilience; direct costs; safety;

Intervention:

Online group intervention: led by a certified mindfulness teacher for Mindful Self-Compassion and additional qualification in Self-Compassion in Healthcare Communities (duration: 6 weekly appointments of 90 min each); control intervention: waiting group

Enrollment: 64 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Group leaders of a self-help group for cancer patients
• written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Medical or mental condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, does not allow the participant to take part in the study or to provide a legally valid signature of the informed consent (e.g. insufficiently controlled pre-existing mental illness or post-traumatic stress disorder)
• Lack of willingness to store and share personal health data as part of the protocol
• Participation in another mindfulness study
• Lack of knowledge of German

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Self-compassion training

Experimental group

Description:

Online group intervention: led by a certified mindfulness teacher for mindful self-compassion and additional qualification in self-compassion in healthcare communities (duration: 6 weekly appointments of 90 min each);

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-compassion training

waiting list control

No Intervention group

Description:

waiting list control