Clinical trial · Interventional
Improving Cancer Family Caregivers' Knowledge and Communication About Care Options
- 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)
The purpose of this two-year mixed methods study is to develop and test an intervention to improve cancer family caregivers' knowledge of care options (curative, palliative, and hospice care) and goals of care communication as part of a self-management (SM) training program. The two specific aims of this project are to: 1. Develop a psycho-educational intervention called Managing Cancer Care: A Caregiver's Guide (MCC-CG), for family caregivers of patients with breast cancer to increase knowledge of care options, goals of care communication, and other SM skills. 2. Evaluate the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the MCC-CG in a pilot randomized controlled trial compared with an attention-control condition (symptom management education) on knowledge of care options, goals of care communication, and other key SM skills (engagement in SM, management of transitions and uncertainty, increasing self-efficacy, appropriate use of health care resources).
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 Caregivers | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managing Cancer Care: A Caregiver's Guide | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Symptom Management Toolkit | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention
- description
- Family caregivers of breast cancer patients who consent to participate in the study have a 50/50 chance of being randomized to the intervention group and will receive the booklet, Managing Cancer Care: A Caregiver's Guide (MCC-CG) (N=18)
- interventionNames
- Other: Managing Cancer Care: A Caregiver's Guide
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Control
- description
- Family caregivers of breast cancer patients who consent to participate in the study have a 50/50 chance of being randomized to the control group and will receive the Symptom Management Toolkit (N=17)
- interventionNames
- Other: Symptom Management Toolkit
Primary outcomes (3)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 110 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * A family member of an individual with any stage of breast cancer receiving curative, palliative, or hospice care * Aged 18+ * English speaking * Live in Connecticut * The patient for whom the participant is a caregiver has a six-month prognosis
References
Publications (8)
- BACKGROUNDMcCorkle R, Ercolano E, Lazenby M, Schulman-Green D, Schilling LS, Lorig K, Wagner EH. Self-management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness. CA Cancer J Clin. 2011 Jan-Feb;61(1):50-62. doi: 10.3322/caac.20093. Epub 2011 Jan 4. PMID 21205833
- BACKGROUNDSchulman-Green D, Ercolano E, Jeon S, Dixon J. Validation of the knowledge of care options instrument to measure knowledge of curative, palliative, and hospice care. J Palliat Med. 2012 Oct;15(10):1091-9. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2011.0514. Epub 2012 Jun 13. PMID 22694739
- BACKGROUNDSchulman-Green D, Jaser S, Martin F, Alonzo A, Grey M, McCorkle R, Redeker NS, Reynolds N, Whittemore R. Processes of self-management in chronic illness. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2012 Jun;44(2):136-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2012.01444.x. Epub 2012 May 2. PMID 22551013
- BACKGROUNDGrey M, Schulman-Green D, Knafl K, Reynolds NR. A revised Self- and Family Management Framework. Nurs Outlook. 2015 Mar-Apr;63(2):162-70. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2014.10.003. Epub 2014 Oct 15. PMID 25771190
- BACKGROUNDSchulman-Green D, Jeon S. Printed guide improves knowledge of curative, palliative, and hospice care among women with metastatic breast cancer. Support Care Cancer. 2013 Oct;21(10):2651-3. doi: 10.1007/s00520-013-1864-x. Epub 2013 Jun 1. No abstract available. PMID 23729228
- BACKGROUNDSchulman-Green D, Jeon S. Managing Cancer Care: a psycho-educational intervention to improve knowledge of care options and breast cancer self-management. Psychooncology. 2017 Feb;26(2):173-181. doi: 10.1002/pon.4013. Epub 2015 Nov 4. PMID 26537980
- BACKGROUNDHinchey J, Goldberg J, Linsky S, Linsky R, Jeon S, Schulman-Green D. Knowledge of Cancer Stage among Women with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer. J Palliat Med. 2016 Mar;19(3):314-7. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2015.0133. Epub 2016 Feb 8.