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Web-based Support for Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer

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Ersta Sköndal University College

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Chronic Illness
Family
Cancer Metastatic
End of Life

Treatments

Other: Narstaende.se

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05785494
MarieCederschiöldUniversity

Details and patient eligibility

About

For family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer, preparedness for caregiving is crucial for maintaining health and quality of life both during care and after the death of the patient. This project contributes to earlier research funded by the Swedish Cancer Society, about an intervention that was delivered by a multi-professional team and proved to be successful in promoting preparedness. However, such interventions are often costly and logistically challenging. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has further significantly raised the need for digital alternatives in healthcare. As a possible solution, an evidence-based intervention, narstaende.se, has been developed consisting of recorded videos of conversations between clinicians and family caregivers (actors), linked to informational texts and a moderated chat forum. The intervention was pilot tested during 2020 and 2021, exploring feasibility, content and family caregivers' experiences. As preliminary results are promising, the intervention is taken one step further and tested as a web-based intervention in a larger scale.

Enrollment

204 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Being a family caregiver, over 18 years of age, to a person with life-threatening illness cared for in specialized home care.

Exclusion criteria

  • Not being able to communicate in Swedish

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

204 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Access to web-site
Treatment:
Other: Narstaende.se
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Standard care

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Anette Alvariza, Professor; Cecilia Högberg, MSc

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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