Resilient Living Program for Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Caregivers

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advanced Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Resilient Living Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04480008

19-011510

NCI-2021-02776 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying to find out if the Resilient Living Program will improve quality of life, stress, anxiety, sleep, fatigue, and resilience in patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for patients:

• Age ≥18 years
• English fluency
• No diagnosed severe cognitive impairment
• Diagnosis of stage IV solid tumor cancer
• Expected prognosis >6 <18 months
• Provide written informed consent
• Ability to complete questionnaire(s) by themselves or with assistance
• Patient baseline distress score ≥4/10 OR identified as having distress that would benefit from program by care team or provider
• Ability to do first Resilient Living session in person

Inclusion Criteria for caregivers:

• Self-identifies as a caregiver of a patient that meets the above cancer diagnosis criteria, and who also participates in the study
• Provide written informed consent
• Ability to complete questionnaire(s) by themselves or with assistance
• Age ≥18 years
• English fluency
• No diagnosed severe cognitive impairment
• Ability to do first Resilient Living session in person

Exclusion Criteria:

• As determined through self-report, those diagnosed with a history of a psychotic episode will be excluded.
• Other psychological co-morbidities such as untreated schizophrenia, bipolar disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Resilient Living Program

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will be in the Resilient Living Program arm. Study participation involves participating in a 12-week stress management and resilience training program. This will involve four virtual sessions (video or phone) and answering questions about their health, well-being, and quality of life. There will also be online modules to watch and an accompanying journal (with prompts) to keep.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resilient Living Program