Impact of Five Love Languages on Cancer Patients

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention utilizing the Five Love Languages on quality of life (pain, depression, and anxiety) of cancer patients.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: 5 Love Languages

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76104
      • Texas Oncology

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients diagnosed with cancer with a significant other who attend a Texas Oncology couples support group will serve as the study population

Exclusion Criteria:

• N/A

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Cancer Patient and their significant other; The intervention will implemented in all cancer patients and their significant others	Behavioral: 5 Love Languages; Emotional support will be given through utilizing the patient/partners specific Love Language (physical touch, words of affirmation, gifts, quality time, and acts of service).

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pain	Pain will be measured through the MD Anderson Cancer Center Brief Pain Inventory and improvement will be measured by change in pain scale score (ranging from 0=no pain to 10= pain as bad as you can imagine) from pre to post survey.	6 weeks
Depression	Depression will be measured through the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) scoring from 0 being not at all to 3 nearly every day of depression symptoms and improvement will be measured in by change in total scoring.	6 weeks
Anxiety	Anxiety will be measured through the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) scoring from 0 being not at all to 3 nearly every day of anxiety symptoms and improvement will be measured in by change in total scoring.	6 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Relationship Quality	This research study is also expected to measure improvement in the relationship of the cancer patient with their significant other. This improvement in relationship will be measured through the Funk and Rogge Couples Satisfaction Index which contains various scales from 0-6 or 0-5 with lowest satisfaction being 0 and highest being 5/6 and improvement will be measured in change in score from pre to post survey.	6 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): May 3, 2022
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): June 14, 2022
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): September 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 25, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 13, 2022
• First Posted (ACTUAL): June 16, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): June 16, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 13, 2022
• Last Verified: June 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00002262

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No