Clinical trial · Observational
Family Caregiving Role Adjustment and Dyadic Mutuality
Family Caregiving Role Adjustment and Dyadic Mutuality: A Mixed Methods Study
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Background: Cancer causes changes in the lives of patients and in the lives of their caregivers. Patients and caregivers feel stress and they affect each other as they deal with these changes. They each cope with cancer diagnosis and treatment on their own. They also cope together. Researchers want to explore this shared change of roles and responsibilities. They will do this by gaining insight into the social experience of cancer caregiving. They also want to better understand the ways caregiver/patient teams manage the cancer diagnosis and experience. This can help find new ways to support caregivers and their patients. Objective: To explore the shared change of roles and responsibilities of patients and caregivers by studying the social experience of cancer caregiving. Eligibility: English speakers ages 18 and older who are one of the following: A cancer patients at the NIH Clinical Center (CC) A caregiver of a CC cancer patient Design: Participants will have been screened by the CC. Patients and caregivers will be interviewed separately. This will last up to an hour and a half. Participants will complete online surveys. Participants may have a follow-up phone interview. This will last up to 15 minutes.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Caregiver and Patient Mutual Negotiation of Roles and Responsibilities | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (0)
Data not yet available
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (0)
[]Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Role Adjustment
- timeFrame
- on-going for Phase I
- description
- by gaining insights into the social experience of cancer family caregiving that will have application to practice and guide further study
- measure
- Mutuality
- timeFrame
- on-going for Phase I
- description
- by gaining insights into the social experience of cancer family caregiving that will have application to practice and guide further study
Secondary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Patient and caregiver mutuality effect on patient well-being
- timeFrame
- 9/1/2017
- measure
- Patient and caregiver mutuality effect on caregiver well-being
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 100 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
* INCLUSION CRITERIA: Patient participants will be recruited if they are at least 18 years of age, have a cancer diagnosis and are a patient at the NIH Clinical Center. They must be at least 6 weeks from the end of active treatment, be in a cancer caregiving situation with a spouse, partner (including non-traditional partner), significant other, family member or friend, be able to read and write English, and participate in a verbal interview (either face to face or by phone). Caregiver Participants will be identified by the patient as the most involved in caregiving and therefore most likely the designated caregiver. The dyadic relationship will be co-defined and co-confirmed by both parties based on the researcher s understanding of dyadic dynamics. Caregiver participants will also be at least 18 years of age, be a spouse or partner (including non-traditional partner), significant other, family member or friend, be involved in the cancer caregiving situation with the care recipient for at least 6 months, be able to read and write English, and be able to participate in a verbal interview (either face to face or by phone). EXCLUSION CRITERIA: Patient participants will be excluded if under age 18, are not fully aware of diagnosis and treatment, if they are not a spouse or partner , (including non-traditional partner), significant other, family member or friend, if they are unable to participate in a verbal interview (either face to face or by phone) or are unable to read or write English. A patient who has enrolled with one caregiver cannot enroll with another caregiver. A single caregiver must be identified for the duration of the protocol. Caregiver Participants will be excluded if they are under age 18, are not the designated person identified by the care recipient as being most involved in their care, and if they are not a spouse or partner , (including non-traditional partner), significant other, family member or friend, if they are unable to participate in a verbal interview (either by face to face or by phone), or are unable to read or write English.
References
Publications (3)
- BACKGROUNDBadr H, Carmack CL, Kashy DA, Cristofanilli M, Revenson TA. Dyadic coping in metastatic breast cancer. Health Psychol. 2010 Mar;29(2):169-80. doi: 10.1037/a0018165. PMID 20230090
- BACKGROUNDPark EO, Schumacher KL. The state of the science of family caregiver-care receiver mutuality: a systematic review. Nurs Inq. 2014 Jun;21(2):140-52. doi: 10.1111/nin.12032. Epub 2013 Apr 26. PMID 23617406
- BACKGROUNDGibbons SW, Ross A, Bevans M. Liminality as a conceptual frame for understanding the family caregiving rite of passage: an integrative review. Res Nurs Health. 2014 Oct;37(5):423-36. doi: 10.1002/nur.21622. Epub 2014 Aug 30. PMID 25176315