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A Web-Based Dyadic Intervention for Colorectal Cancer

A Web-Based Dyadic Intervention to Manage Psychoneurological Symptoms for Patients With Colorectal Cancer and Their Caregivers

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Time periods mentioned: 8 weeks
  • Procedures mentioned: Interviews, Questionnaires

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "Determine tailored contents by identifying needs and supports for a web-based dyadic intervention using interviews with patient-caregiver dyads (n=8); Ib."
  • "Test the usability (e.g., design, navigation, structure, language) of CRCweb prototype using interviews with 4 dyads (in Aim Ia)."
  • "OUTLINE: Patients and caregivers attend a CRCweb intervention over 8 weeks."
  • "Patients and caregivers complete interviews and surveys throughout the trial."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests an online program for people with colorectal cancer (cancer of the colon or rectum) who are getting chemotherapy and their main caregivers. It looks at whether the program helps with tiredness, depression, sleep problems, pain, and trouble thinking, and improves quality of life.

This clinical trial studies how well a web-based dyadic intervention works to manage psychoneurological symptoms for patients with colorectal cancer and their caregivers. Patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy experience severe and distressing psychoneurological symptoms that include fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance, pain, and cognitive dysfunction. When these co-occurring symptoms are undertreated, they negatively affect functional status, survival rates, and quality of life of patients as well as decrease health outcomes of their family caregiver. A critical need exists to develop an effective and novel intervention that focuses on patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy and their caregivers. A web-based dyadic intervention holds great promise to reduce psychoneurological symptoms burden and improve quality of life for patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy and advance intervention development and implementation in cancer supportive care and health equity.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Patients and caregivers must be age 18 or older.
  • Patients must have colorectal cancer and be getting chemotherapy.
  • Patients must be expected to live more than 12 months.
  • Patients must report at least two symptoms, such as tiredness, depression, sleep problems, pain, or trouble thinking. Symptom scores must meet the study’s limits.
  • Patients must name a main caregiver, such as a family member or partner, who gives emotional and physical support.
  • Caregivers must be the patient’s main caregiver.
  • Patients and caregivers must have internet access.
  • Patients and caregivers must be fluent in English.

Who can't join

  • Patients cannot have a Karnofsky score below 50. This score measures how well a person can do daily activities and care for themselves.
  • Caregivers cannot have a severe disease, such as cancer or heart disease.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

INCLUSION CRITERIA Patients: * Age \>= 18 years * Diagnosed with colorectal cancer * Life expectancy \> 12 months * Receiving active chemotherapy * Self-reported at least two psychoneurological symptoms (based on the symptom measures' cutoff scores) * Identified primary caregiver (i.e., family members or significant others identified by the patients as their primary source of emotional and physical support) * Access to the Internet * Fluent in English Caregivers: * Age \>= 18 years * Primary caregiver * Access to the Internet * Fluent in English EXCLUSION CRITERIA Patients: • Karnofsky Performance Scale \< 50 Caregivers: • Have severe diseases (e.g., cancer, heart disease)

Study sites (1)

GA