NCT06307535

A Study of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers to People With Cancer

Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy to Meet Palliative Care Needs of Cancer Caregivers

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Caregiver Burden
• Caregiver Burnout
• Caregiver Stress Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Meaning-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.
BEHAVIORAL	Supportive Psychotherapy for Caregivers	Standard of care supportive psychotherapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-13
• Primary completion: 2029-03-01
• Completion: 2029-03-01
• First posted: 2024-03-13
• Last updated: 2025-07-28

Locations

8 sites across 1 country: United States