Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy to Meet Palliative Care Needs of Cancer Caregivers
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Summary
Participants will complete 1 set of questionnaires about 2 weeks before beginning their Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers/MCP-C or standard Supportive Psychotherapy for Caregivers/SP-C sessions. These questionnaires will ask about participants' sense of meaning and purpose in life, spiritual well-being, depression and/or anxiety, and social support. Participants will then be assigned to receive either MCP-C or SP-C for 7 sessions. Participants will complete additional sets of questionnaires about 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months after their last session of MCP-C or SP-C. It will take between 35 and 50 minutes to complete each set of questionnaires. After participants complete the MCP-C or SP-C sessions and all 4 sets of questionnaires, their participation in this study will end. If participants decide not to complete all 7 sessions, they may still choose to complete the questionnaires. Participants may remain in the study and continue to receive all 7 sessions of MCP-C or SP-C even if their loved one passes away.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 or over; * As per self-report, a current caregiver to a patient with Stage III or IV solid tumor cancer currently receiving medical care of any kind (e.g., curative, palliative); * Experiences distress as evidenced by a score of 4 or greater on the Distress Thermometer (DT) and an indication that this distress is associated with caregiving; * As per self-report, can read and understand English; * As per self-report, residing in New York, New Jersey, or Florida, or have the ability to complete sessions while complying with current telehealth regulations. Exclusion…
Interventions
- BehavioralMeaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers
MCP-C is a stakeholder-informed, innovative, manualized intervention designed to assist caregivers to connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in life, despite the challenges of caregiving.
- BehavioralSupportive Psychotherapy for Caregivers
Standard of care supportive psychotherapy
Locations (8)
- University of Miami (Data Collection AND Data Analysis)Miami, Florida
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)Basking Ridge, New Jersey
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited protocol activities)Middletown, New Jersey
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)Montvale, New Jersey
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk-Commack (Limited protocol activity)Commack, New York
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only)Harrison, New York