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Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Addressing Existential Distress of Patient/Caregiver Dyads Following Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Feasibility and Acceptability

12 maggio 2026 aggiornato da: Natalie S. McAndrew, PhD, RN, Mayo Clinic
The purpose of this study is to learn whether Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP-Dyad) is practical, acceptable, and helpful to survivors and caregivers during recovery after stem cell transplant. MCP-Dyad is a meaning-focused support program. It is designed to help people stay connected to meaning, cope with difficult experiences, and communicate as a pair during recovery.

Panoramica dello studio

Stato

Non ancora reclutamento

Condizioni

Intervento / Trattamento

Tipo di studio

Interventistico

Iscrizione (Stimato)

100

Fase

  • Non applicabile

Contatti e Sedi

Questa sezione fornisce i recapiti di coloro che conducono lo studio e informazioni su dove viene condotto lo studio.

Contatto studio

Luoghi di studio

Criteri di partecipazione

I ricercatori cercano persone che corrispondano a una certa descrizione, chiamata criteri di ammissibilità. Alcuni esempi di questi criteri sono le condizioni generali di salute di una persona o trattamenti precedenti.

Criteri di ammissibilità

Età idonea allo studio

  • Adulto
  • Adulto più anziano

Accetta volontari sani

No

Descrizione

Inclusion criteria:

  • Eligible patients and their caregivers must be adults (≥18 years)
  • Patient must have undergone HSCT for a malignant blood cancer condition
  • Caregiver must be the main support person (e.g., signed caregiving contract) for the HSCT patient
  • Both the patient and their caregiver must be willing to participate in the study (dyads only)
  • Be able to read, write, and speak in English
  • Have access to a smartphone, computer, or tablet necessary for study participation and assessments. If a patient/caregiver dyad is interested in participating but does not have such a device, we will provide a Tracfone with smartphone capabilities for each member of the dyad

Exclusion criteria:

  • Patients undergoing HSCT for nonmalignant conditions
  • Patients and caregivers with severe cognitive or psychiatric impairment that may affect informed consent/participation
  • Prisoners, pregnant women, and institutionalized persons
  • Patients with severe cognitive or psychiatric impairment that would affect informed consent or participation

Piano di studio

Questa sezione fornisce i dettagli del piano di studio, compreso il modo in cui lo studio è progettato e ciò che lo studio sta misurando.

Come è strutturato lo studio?

Dettagli di progettazione

  • Scopo principale: Trattamento
  • Assegnazione: Randomizzato
  • Modello interventistico: Assegnazione parallela
  • Mascheramento: Nessuno (etichetta aperta)

Armi e interventi

Gruppo di partecipanti / Arm
Intervento / Trattamento
Sperimentale: Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) Dyad
The MCP-Dyad arm participants will meet with an MCP-Dyad interventionist to engage in didactic content, reflection, and discussion to teach participants how to apply four sources of meaning to their lives
Comportamentale: Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy
Survivor and caregiver dyads will participate in a seven-session, telehealth delivered Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Dyads (MCP-Dyad) program post-transplant.
Comparatore attivo: Usual Care
The standard of care arm will receive standard resources and consultations for HSCT care, which include a joint educational class for patients and caregivers before and after treatment.
Comportamentale: Usual Care
Survivor and caregiver dyads will receive standard resources and consultations for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) care, which include a joint educational class for patients and caregivers before and after treatment.

Cosa sta misurando lo studio?

Misure di risultato primarie

Misura del risultato
Misura Descrizione
Lasso di tempo
Feasibility to accrue HSCT patient/caregiver dyads
Lasso di tempo: Baseline
Percentage of eligible caregivers approached who consent and enroll within 18 months.
Baseline
Completion of MCP-Dyad
Lasso di tempo: End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Percentage of patients and caregivers in the MCP-Dyad cohort who complete at least 5 out of 7 intervention sessions (benchmark: 70%).
End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
MCP-Dyad Feasibility rating from participants
Lasso di tempo: End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Percentage of patients and caregivers who rate MCP-Dyad as 4/5 or higher on the Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM) 4-item questionnaire (benchmark: 70%). Higher scores signify greater agreement with intervention feasibility.
End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
MCP-Dyad Retention
Lasso di tempo: End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Percentage of patients and caregivers who complete follow-up assessments (benchmark: 75%).
End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
MCP-Dyad Intervention Adherence
Lasso di tempo: End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Percentage of recorded sessions that are delivered per protocol (benchmark: 80%)
End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
MCP-Dyad acceptability as rated on the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)
Lasso di tempo: End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Percentage of patients and caregivers who rate the intervention as 4/5 or higher on the 4-item Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) questionnaire (benchmark: 70%). Higher scores signify greater agreement with intervention acceptability.
End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Change in Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM) score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)
Percentage of patients and caregivers who rate the intervention as 4/5 or higher on the 4-item Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM) questionnaire (benchmark: 70%). Higher scores signify greater agreement with intervention appropriateness.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks)

Misure di risultato secondarie

Misura del risultato
Misura Descrizione
Lasso di tempo
Change in Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy -Bone Marrow Transplant (FACT-BMT) score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The impact of MCP-Dyad on patient and caregiver health-related quality of life will be assessed using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy -Bone Marrow Transplant (FACT-BMT). The patient instrument is a multidimensional measure of quality of life in adult HSCT patients. Each item is rated from 0 (not at all) to 4 (very much) and is an assessment of symptoms over the past 7 days. Domains include social and family well-being, emotional well-being, functional well-being, and BMT-specific concerns. Higher scores overall indicate better quality of life.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R) score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The impact of MCP-Dyad on the patient and caregiver's meaning and purpose (increased meaning and purpose equivalent to less existential distress) will be measured using the 48-item Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R) instrument. It has six domains (purpose, coherence, life control, death acceptance, existential vacuum, goal seeking) that make up two subscales, the Personal Meaning Index and Existential Transcendence. Higher scores generally indicate a more positive attitude towards life.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy Spiritual Well-being (FACIT-Sp) Scale score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The impact of MCP-Dyad on the patient's and caregiver's spiritual well-being will be measured using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy Spiritual Well-being (FACIT-Sp) Scale. It has two subscales, one for faith and another for meaning/peace. Higher scores indicate greater spiritual well-being.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Benefit Finding Scale (BFS) score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The impact of MCP-Dyad on benefit finding will be measured using a slightly modified version of the Benefit Finding Scale (BFS), a 17-item measure that captures positive life challenges resulting from adversity (e.g., personal priorities, acceptance, daily activities, family, world views, relationship, purpose). Higher scores indicate greater benefit finding.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Mutuality Scale (MS) score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The Mutuality Scale (MS) measures the positive quality of the relationship between the care recipient and the caregiver. Grounded in the concept of mutuality (degree of love, reciprocity, shared pleasurable activities, and shared values) in the patient/caregiver relationship. There is a four-domain structure with items rated from 0 (not at all) to 4 (a great deal) with question stems examining varies aspects of the relationship (e.g., how much do you enjoy spending time together). Higher overall scores indicate greater mutuality.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) is a self-report measure of relationship quality in couples. It assesses dyadic consensus, dyadic satisfaction, and dyadic cohesion to give an overall index of marital quality. The rating scale is 0 (always disagree) to 5 (always agree). Higher overall scores indicates greater relationship satisfaction.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Social Constraints Scale score
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
The Social Constraints Scale measures the extent to which individuals perceive their social environment, particularly close relationships, as a limiting or discouraging their ability to express thoughts and feelings related to a stressful experience. Items are rated from 1(never) to 4 (very often). Higher scores are equivalent to more social constraints in the relationship.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Change in Communal Coping Domains score
Lasso di tempo: 8 weeks post-intervention
The Communal Coping Domains instrument assesses how patients and caregivers manage health-related behavior change, particularly in the context of health threats by measuring shared perceptions, confidence, and behaviors. There are three tailored subscales: use of communal coping (how frequently dyads use joint efforts to manage health threats), how confident the dyad is in working together to manage health, and beliefs about communal coping strategies. Responses for the use of the communal coping domain range from 1(never) to 5 (very often), and responses for the couple efficacy and outcome efficacy range from 0 (not at all) to 10 (very much). Higher overall scores indicate greater confidence in patient/caregiver coping strategies.
8 weeks post-intervention
Percentage of dyads to use plural pronouns (I versus We language)
Lasso di tempo: Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention
Communal coping can be objectively measured based on the amount of "we versus I" language across the intervention sessions. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC-22) software is a validated way to examine the number of pronouns uttered. Essentially, this software works by comparing each word in a text against an internal dictionary of words and then provides a percentage of total words that fall into a specific category. We will use the recorded sessions to determine the percentage of subjects using plural pronouns.
Baseline, End of treatment (approximately 14 weeks), 8 weeks post-intervention

Collaboratori e investigatori

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Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Investigatori

  • Investigatore principale: Natalie McAndrew, PhD, RN, Mayo Clinic

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Studia le date principali

Inizio studio (Stimato)

1 agosto 2026

Completamento primario (Stimato)

28 febbraio 2028

Completamento dello studio (Stimato)

30 aprile 2028

Date di iscrizione allo studio

Primo inviato

12 maggio 2026

Primo inviato che soddisfa i criteri di controllo qualità

12 maggio 2026

Primo Inserito (Effettivo)

19 maggio 2026

Aggiornamenti dei record di studio

Ultimo aggiornamento pubblicato (Effettivo)

19 maggio 2026

Ultimo aggiornamento inviato che soddisfa i criteri QC

12 maggio 2026

Ultimo verificato

1 maggio 2026

Maggiori informazioni

Termini relativi a questo studio

Altri numeri di identificazione dello studio

  • 26-005192

Piano per i dati dei singoli partecipanti (IPD)

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NO

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Studia un prodotto farmaceutico regolamentato dalla FDA degli Stati Uniti

No

Studia un dispositivo regolamentato dalla FDA degli Stati Uniti

No

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