Enhancing Adjustment to Parental Cancer: Short-term Counselling for Families
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A parental cancer diagnosis challenges the family's stability and the parent-child relationship. It may impact the children's well-being, so that about one third of them develop clinically relevant levels of psychological distress. Psycho-oncological family-based counselling programs have been shown to elevate children's and parents' well-being. However, there is still a dearth of familial health services in Switzerland, which has also been recognized by the Swiss National Cancer Program (2011-2017).
This study aims to implement and evaluate a short-term family counselling intervention at the Cancer Center of the University Hospital Basel. The primary objective of the study is the enhancement of adjustment to the parental cancer diagnosis. The study seeks secondary to determine the feasibility of the short-term counselling Intervention.
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This study ist designed as a randomized controlled wait-list Intervention study, which aims to implement and evaluate a short-term family counselling intervention at the Cancer Center of the University Hospital Basel. The study will be divided into two stages: Stage 1 serves as the preparatory work phase, where the intervention manual will be developed as well as the implementation strategy into the hospital. In stage 2 the intervention will be evaluated, with an interim analysis to test for feasibility. The primary objective of the study is the enhancement of adjustment (family, parents and children) to the parental cancer diagnosis. The study seeks secondary to determine the feasibility of the short-term counselling intervention in the Swiss medical setting and to identify predictors for families with continuing psychosocial adjustment problems.
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- Informed Consent as documented by signature
- Diagnosis of any kind of cancer, inclusive relapse, within the last year with an expected survival of at least 8 months
- Married, cohabiting or single parent
- At least one child between 1-5 - 18 years
- German speaking
Exclusion criteria
- The diagnosis is more than 1 year ago
- Diagnosed patients (parent) not living with their children
- Diagnosed patients without custody of their children
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11 participants in 2 patient groups
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