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Care Partners: Web-based Support for Caregivers of Veterans Undergoing Chemotherapy

29. februar 2016 opdateret af: VA Office of Research and Development

Web-based Support for Caregivers of Veterans Undergoing Chemotherapy

Given the growing strain on the Veterans Administration resulting from increasing caseloads of cancer patients, interventions are badly needed that assist patients in managing their illness, improve quality of life and avoid acute episodes that result in urgent care use and increased mortality. Previous studies have found that cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can effectively manage their own symptoms when monitored using automated telephone calls. Such technology, however, may challenge the number of Veterans who lack social support and/or independence. The goal was to develop and test a technology that not only monitors patients automatically by telephone, but also gives them self management advice and engages a friend or family member to serve as a CarePartner willing to play a limited role in identifying patient symptoms and psychosocial needs to reinforce self management and provide social support. The investigators found that this technology indeed helped patients better control their symptoms, especially when a caregiver participated in the program along with them.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Cancer is a prevalent problem that causes much suffering among Veterans and their families. Most interventions to improve symptom control require Veterans to engage in activities such as managing medications, altering diets, or accessing outside resources that may be beyond their reach due to limitations in physical and mental functioning. Friends and family inside and outside of the Veteran's household can help, but often lack the skills and resources they need to do so.

"Cancer CarePartners" was designed to address these needs by providing cancer-stricken Veterans and their informal caregivers with the information they need to make effective management decisions, decrease symptom burden, and improve outcomes. Cancer CarePartners is a Web-enabled program that alerts caregivers of patients' symptoms and provides them with a framework for identifying problems, receiving structured advice, formulating a 'task list,' and following up with their patients as they receive chemotherapy. Specifically, Cancer CarePartners includes weekly, automated telephonic symptom assessment (ATSA) with self-management (SM) support to the Veteran paired with Web-based alerts to the caregiver pointing them to a website where s/he can obtain customized advice. A randomized control trial was conducted to test the efficacy of this program in controlling symptoms as well as improving adherence to chemotherapy.

Objectives

1) To determine if Veterans undergoing chemotherapy who receive Cancer CarePartners report significant improvement in the summed severity of symptoms (the sum of 0-10 severity across 8 core symptoms) compared to Veterans receiving symptom monitoring and self-management advice; secondarily, to determine if they experience better adherence to chemotherapy and utilization. (2) To determine if caregivers participating in the intervention provide significantly more social support to patients than do controls; secondarily, to determine if they experience more caregiver burden and distress than do controls. (3) To determine whether impacts on patients are mediated by mastery. (4) To determine whether impacts on caregivers are mediated by mastery.

Methods Consenting Veterans with solid tumors undergoing chemotherapy at one of three VAMCs (Ann Arbor, Loma Linda and Fargo) who reported at least one core symptom at a moderate level or higher and had a caregiver willing to enroll in the study were randomly assigned to either 10 weeks of Cancer CarePartners or 10 weeks of automated, telephonic symptom assessment (ATSA) with self management support. Arms were balanced for non-small cell lung cancer status and caregiver type. Patients and caregivers were surveyed at intake, 10, and 14 weeks. In addition, the investigators tracked patient participation with ATSA and (in the experimental arm) caregiver use of the Cancer CarePartners Website. The investigators reviewed all medical records for content of care received during the 14 weeks on study.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

134

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Forenede Stater
    • California
      • Loma Linda, California, Forenede Stater, 92357
        • VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA
    • Michigan
      • Ann Arbor, Michigan, Forenede Stater, 48105
        • VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år og ældre (Voksen, Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients must be 18 years or older, cognitively intact, English-speaking, able to hear, and own a telephone.
  • Patients can have any solid tumor.
  • Patients must be initiating IV cytotoxic chemotherapy and, if recurrent, have experienced a 1 month treatment free interval.
  • Caregivers must be 18 years or older, cognitively intact, English-speaking, and able to hear/speak for interviews.
  • Caregivers must have access to a telephone and computer with high speed internet access.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients will be excluded if they have a hematologic malignancy or are receiving bone marrow transplantation.
  • Patients and caregivers will be excluded if they have an untreated serious mental illness or cognitive impairment, are institutionalized or enrolled in hospice (prior to trial), or plan on not receiving all care from VA

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Støttende pleje
  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Enkelt gruppeopgave
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Eksperimentel: CarePartners+
Patients receive automated telephonic symptom assessment and symptom management advice; caregivers receive the intervention (Intervention = access to a caregiver Web site that updates them on patient's symptoms and provides tailored problem solving advice).
Adfærdsmæssigt: Caregiver website
Website receives patient symptom assessment data from IVR and provides caregivers with weekly updates on patient status, allowing caregivers to access tailored symptom management advice and formulate an action plan.
Andre navne:
  • Care Partners
Ingen indgriben: CarePartners-
Patients receive automated telephonic symptom assessment and symptom management advice; caregivers receive nothing (i.e. no access to the caregiver website, or 'intervention').

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Summed Symptom Severity
Tidsramme: 3 months
Summed severity across 8 symptoms of interest, as measured using the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory. 8 core symptoms rated by the patient on a scale of 0 to 10. These 8 symptoms were chosen based on their prevalence of 50% or greater in the population of interest. Higher scores mean WORSE or GREATER SYMPTOM BURDEN.
3 months

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

VA Office of Research and Development

Samarbejdspartnere

University of Michigan
Michigan State University

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Maria J. Silveira, MD MA MPH, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

Publikationer og nyttige links

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Generelle publikationer

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. oktober 2009

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. april 2014

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. februar 2015

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

22. september 2009

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

23. september 2009

Først opslået (Skøn)

24. september 2009

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

22. marts 2016

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

29. februar 2016

Sidst verificeret

1. februar 2016

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • IIR 08-309

Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)

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