NCT03016403

A Stepped Care Intervention to Reduce Disparities in Mental Health Services Among Cancer Patients and Caregivers

A Stepped-Care Intervention to Reduce Disparities in Mental Health Services Among Underserved Lung and Head and Neck Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 535 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Medically under-served (i.e., low-income, uninsured, underinsured) cancer patients generally encounter significant disparities in accessing care for their mental health needs while undergoing toxic treatments that provide considerable physical and emotional stress. Thus, the investigators propose to adapt evidence-based strategies to a stepped-care intervention model to address the mental health needs of under-served lung cancer (LC) and head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and their caregivers across several levels of symptom severity (e.g., mild, moderate, or severe symptoms of depression and anxiety).

Conditions

• Cancer, Lung
• Cancer, Head and Neck

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Stepped-Care Intervention	The intervention delivered evidence-based CBT and stress management across eight counseling sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced Usual Care	Consists of a list of standard mental health resources offered at the participating hospital, local community, or national non-profit organizations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-03
• Primary completion: 2020-07-17
• Completion: 2020-07-17
• First posted: 2017-01-10
• Last updated: 2021-03-19
• Results posted: 2021-03-19

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: United States