NCT03097458

Enhancing Adjustment to Parental Cancer: Short-term Counselling for Families

Enhancing Adjustment to Parental Cancer: Short-term Counselling for Families. A Randomized, Wait-list Controlled Intervention Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 11 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A parental cancer diagnosis challenges the family's stability and the parent-child relationship. It may impact the children's well-being, so that about one third of them develop clinically relevant levels of psychological distress. Psycho-oncological family-based counselling programs have been shown to elevate children's and parents' well-being. However, there is still a dearth of familial health services in Switzerland, which has also been recognized by the Swiss National Cancer Program (2011-2017). This study aims to implement and evaluate a short-term family counselling intervention at the Cancer Center of the University Hospital Basel. The primary objective of the study is the enhancement of adjustment to the parental cancer diagnosis. The study seeks secondary to determine the feasibility of the short-term counselling Intervention.

Detailed description

This study ist designed as a randomized controlled wait-list Intervention study, which aims to implement and evaluate a short-term family counselling intervention at the Cancer Center of the University Hospital Basel. The study will be divided into two stages: Stage 1 serves as the preparatory work phase, where the intervention manual will be developed as well as the implementation strategy into the hospital. In stage 2 the intervention will be evaluated, with an interim analysis to test for feasibility. The primary objective of the study is the enhancement of adjustment (family, parents and children) to the parental cancer diagnosis. The study seeks secondary to determine the feasibility of the short-term counselling intervention in the Swiss medical setting and to identify predictors for families with continuing psychosocial adjustment problems.

Conditions

• Psychological Adjustment
• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Short-term Counselling for Families	Counselling for Families which can take up to 6 weeks, with regular meetings under the guidance of a trained psychotherapist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-04
• Primary completion: 2019-09-01
• Completion: 2019-09-01
• First posted: 2017-03-31
• Last updated: 2020-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland