NCT03875885

CONNECTing Head and Neck Caregivers to Supportive Care Resources

CONNECTing Caregivers to Supportive Services (CONNECT): A Technology-Based Intervention to Connect Cancer Caregivers With Supportive Care Resources

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to determine feasibility and acceptability of randomized pilot trial to evaluate a technology-based intervention (CONNECT) to empower and educate caregivers about the benefits of supportive care resources, identify their unmet needs, and connect them with resources.

Detailed description

The registration is for Objective two and three that refers to the clinical trial. The investigators will determine their ability to recruit caregivers of patients with head and neck cancer being treated at Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center to a study that uses a technology-based intervention, CONNECT, which may increase head and neck cancer caregivers' knowledge about the benefits of supportive care resources, identify their unmet needs, and connect them with supportive care resources. In this study the investigators also want to look at their ability to recruit a control group of caregivers, that is, caregivers of patients with head and neck cancer being treated at Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center that will receive a list of supportive care resources. Control groups are used in research to see if the intervention being studied really does have an effect. In addition, the investigators will determine whether or not the intervention has led to improvements in caregivers' use of supportive care resources, quality of care, and overall quality of life.

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CONNECT	A novel web-based intervention with input from an advisory panel of cancer caregivers, oncology providers, and psychosocial oncology professionals empowering caregivers with needs to seek services by providing education about the benefits of supportive care resources, systematically identifying their unmet needs, and connecting them with tailored supportive care resources.
BEHAVIORAL	CONTROL	This group will receive a generic resource list. The generic resource list will be printed for participants and emailed to them, if participants have an email address.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-16
• Primary completion: 2022-05-31
• Completion: 2022-05-31
• First posted: 2019-03-15
• Last updated: 2023-04-27
• Results posted: 2023-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States