Clinical trial · Observational
Emotion Regulation and Cancer Caregiving
NCT06123416CI-TRIAL-00071262completedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- 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 the study is to determine how the behaviors of cancer caregivers can impact patients.
Conditions
Conditions (4)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Emotions | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Healthy | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expressive Writing | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- label
- Control Caregivers
- description
- Control participants will write about their daily and future tasks three times.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Expressive Writing
- label
- Expressive Writing Caregivers
- description
- Experimental participants will write about their thoughts and feelings about an emotionally difficult event three times.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Expressive Writing
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
- timeFrame
- Baseline through 3 months post-intervention
- description
- Emotion regulation refers to the ways people influence which emotions they have, and how they experience and express these emotions. Participants will rate their habitual pursuit of pro-hedonic, contra-hedonic, pro-social, and impression management goals using the ERGS. The items will be rated on the same 7-point scale (1 = never; 7 = always).
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 21 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: All participants must: * Be 21 years or older * Have access to a computer with internet access Patients must: * Be women * Have a diagnosis of breast cancer (non-recurrent) Caregivers must be: -The patient's caregiver (providing support to the patient) Exclusion Criteria: Participants must not be: -Younger than 21 years Patients must not: * Be men * Have a diagnosis other than breast cancer (non-recurrent)
References
Publications (30)
- BACKGROUNDNational Alliance for Caregiving. (2016). Cancer Caregiving in the U.S.: An Intense, Episodic, and Challenging Care Experience.
- BACKGROUNDRyerson AB, Eheman CR, Altekruse SF, Ward JW, Jemal A, Sherman RL, Henley SJ, Holtzman D, Lake A, Noone AM, Anderson RN, Ma J, Ly KN, Cronin KA, Penberthy L, Kohler BA. Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2012, featuring the increasing incidence of liver cancer. Cancer. 2016 May 1;122(9):1312-37. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29936. Epub 2016 Mar 9. PMID 26959385
- BACKGROUNDLwi SJ, Ford BQ, Casey JJ, Miller BL, Levenson RW. Poor caregiver mental health predicts mortality of patients with neurodegenerative disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jul 11;114(28):7319-7324. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701597114. Epub 2017 Jun 27. PMID 28655841
- BACKGROUNDKershaw, T., Northouse, L., Kritpracha, C., Schafenacker, A., & Mood, D. (2004). Coping strategies and quality of life in women with advanced breast cancer and their family caregivers. Psychology & Health, 19, 139-155.
- BACKGROUNDAppleton AA, Loucks EB, Buka SL, Kubzansky LD. Divergent associations of antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation strategies with midlife cardiovascular disease risk. Ann Behav Med. 2014 Oct;48(2):246-55. doi: 10.1007/s12160-014-9600-4. PMID 24570218
- BACKGROUNDGross, J. J. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review. Review of General Psychology, 2, 271-299.
- BACKGROUNDGross, J. J. (2015). Emotion regulation: Current status and future prospects. Psychological Inquiry, 26, 1-26.
- BACKGROUNDWebb TL, Miles E, Sheeran P. Dealing with feeling: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation. Psychol Bull. 2012 Jul;138(4):775-808. doi: 10.1037/a0027600. Epub 2012 May 14. PMID 22582737