Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:33 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:33 AM
NCT ID:
NCT02430467
Brief Summary:
The purpose of this study is to develop more effective ways to help patients and their caregivers cope with cancer pain. The investigators are looking at the usefulness of a Caregiver-Guided Pain Management Training Intervention versus Pain Education.
Detailed Description:
The primary aim of this study is to test the efficacy for the Caregiver-Guided Pain Management Training intervention to improve the caregiver's self-efficacy for helping the patient manage pain. Secondary aims include testing the effectiveness of the CG-PMT intervention to improve patient pain severity, patient self-efficacy for pain management and patient psychological distress, as well as short-term caregiver adjustment and caregiver adjustment following the patient's death.
In this multi-site study, 236 dyads (patients with cancer pain and their family caregivers) will be randomized to either a Caregiver-Guided Pain Management Training protocol or to an Enhanced Treatment-as-Usual control condition. Dyads in the Caregiver-Guided Pain Management condition will receive three one-hour sessions conducted via videoconference. Dyads in the Enhanced Treatment-as-Usual condition will receive educational material about cancer pain and its management but will not receive any study-related treatment sessions. Assessments will be conducted with patients and caregivers before and after treatment, and with caregivers 3 months and 6 months following the patient's death. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that caregivers who receive the intervention will report significantly higher levels of self-efficacy for helping the patient manage pain than caregivers in the control condition. Secondary aims will focus on (a) improvements in short-term caregiver adjustment as well as caregiver adjustment following the patient's death, and (b) patient pain severity, self-efficacy for pain management, and psychological distress.
Study:
NCT02430467
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02430467