Clinical Trial: Caregiver Support in the Coping of Patients Who Are Undergoing a Donor Bone Marrow Transplant
Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Adjustment to Illness by Survival Rates in Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT): The Relative Importance of Lay Care-Partner Support
Brief Summary:
RATIONALE: Questionnaires that measure coping may improve the ability to plan supportive care for patients undergoing donor bone marrow transplant.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying coping in patients who are undergoing a donor bone marrow transplant.
Detailed Summary:
OBJECTIVES:
- Investigate the relative importance of having a consistent inpatient lay care-partner for patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, in terms of the effects on modes of adjustment to illness and survival.
OUTLINE: Patients undergo a 40-minute recorded oral interview in person to provide personal and social demographic data using a 20-item questionnaire (The Adjustment to Illness Questionnaire-Bone Marrow Transplantation) at baseline (pre-transplant) and at day 100 post-transplant.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study.
Sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic
Current Primary Outcome: Compare modes of illness adjustment, presence or absence of an inpatient lay care-partner, and survival rates [ Time Frame: Through 100 days post transplant ]
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Information By: The Cleveland Clinic
Dates:
Date Received: January 24, 2006
Date Started: February 2006
Date Completion:
Last Updated: March 28, 2011
Last Verified: March 2011
