Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
With
Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital
Michigan State University
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Indiana University
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Primary family caregiver identified by a patient who is approximately within 4 to 6 weeks of a new visit to a thoracic clinic and receiving cancer care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center or Queens Cancer Center
Caregiver is at least 18 years of age.
Caregiver has adequate English fluency for completion of data collection. The surveys were designed and validated in English and are not currently available in other languages. Translation of questionnaires into other languages would require reestablishing the reliability and validity of these measures. Therefore, participants must be able to communicate in English to complete the surveys.
Clinically meaningful distress defined as a score of 8 or greater on the Anxiety or Depression subscale of the HADS (see Bjelland et al., 2002; Zigmond \& Snaith, 1983).
You may not be if
Patients or caregivers exhibiting significant psychiatric or cognitive impairment (dementia/delirium, retardation, active psychosis) that in the judgment of the investigators would preclude providing informed consent and study participation
Patient has lung cancer recurrence
Currently participating in a psychosocial intervention trial
