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Support for Bereaved Cancer Caregivers

Support for Bereaved Friend and Family Caregivers of Cancer Patients

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

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

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 whether a nature-based healing meditation program is practical and well received. It is for friends and family members who cared for someone with cancer who recently died.

Friend and family caregivers of recently deceased cancer patients experience acute bereavement following the death. Post death bereavement is an intense period of mourning that includes an unfolding of the grief process and is characterized by strong emotions and demands on cognitive resources to those who have put aside their own needs to support the dying patient with cancer. This research will test the feasibility and acceptability of a nature-based healing meditation (NBHM) intervention to support cancer caregivers' during the bereavement process.

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

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Be 18 or older.
  • Be able and willing to give reflexology, a practice that uses pressure on certain parts of the body.
  • Be able to speak and understand English.
  • Have access to a telephone.
  • Be able to hear normal conversation.
  • Know the time, where you are, and who you are. The recruiter will check this.

Who can't join

  • Be unwilling to show a taught skill back with at least 90% accuracy.

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

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years old or older; Able and willing to provide reflexology * Able to speak and understand English * Have access to a telephone * Able to hear normal conversation * Cognitively oriented to time, place, and person (determined via recruiter) Exclusion Criteria: \- Unwilling to perform return demonstration with 90% accuracy

Study sites (1)

MI