Official Title: Prostate Cancer Family Care for Patients and Spouses
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2008-07
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine if a family-based intervention The FOCUS Program can improve the long-term quality of life and other psycho-social outcomes of men with prostate cancer and their spouses
Detailed Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if a family-based intervention The FOCUS Program could improve the long-term quality of life and other psycho-social outcomes of men with prostate cancer and their spousepartners Aim 1 The first aim was to determine if the family intervention could improve several proximal clinical outcomes less negative appraisal of illness or caregiving less uncertainty less hopelessness better family communication higher self-efficacy and more problem-focused coping and improve the distal clinical outcome quality of life in a culturally and economically diverse sample of men with prostate cancer and their spouses Aim 2 The second aim was to test a stress-coping model designed to predict which prostate cancer patients and their spouses are at higher risk of poorer long-term quality of life