mHealth Mindfulness With Patients With Serious Illness and Their Caregivers
Recruiting · NCT05040711 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Active ComparatorMindfulness Coach
What this trial is about
Older adults with serious illness and their caregivers have high rates of anxiety and limited access to effective, non-pharmacological treatments. A recent National Academy of Medicine report recommended increased emphasis on disseminating and implementing evidence-based psychotherapies in order to have maximal public health impact. Through this work, I will identify a sustainable and potentially scalable dyadic intervention and delivery model to manage symptoms of anxiety in older adults with serious illness and their caregivers in primary care.
Who can take part
Age range
21 Years and older
Sex
All (male and female)
Healthy volunteers
Yes - healthy volunteers may be accepted
Phase
Not applicable (e.g. observational or device study)
Study type
Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment)
Inclusion criteria
- adults 60+
- Diagnosis of or caregiver for individual with serious illnesses (e.g., ESRD, Cancer, CHF, COPD, Liver Disease)
- Hads-A \> 8 for patient or caregiver
- Blessed\<6
- fluent in English
- vision and hearing does not interfere with mobile device use
- caregivers who must be 21+
- caregiver must identify as primary source of informal care for patient
- Caregiver blessed \<6
- caregiver is fluent in English
- Caregiver's vision and hearing does not interfere with mobile device use.
Exclusion criteria
- experience with mindfulness therapy in last 2 years
- not fluent in English
- vision or hearing that impairs use of mobile device
- cognitive impairment more than 6 on Blessed.
Where it is running
3 locations listed across 1 US state.
- RWJ Barnabas Outpatient Geriatric Clinics - Livingston, New Jersey, United States
- RWJB Outpatient Geriatrics - Monroe, New Jersey, United States
- Cancer Institute of New Jersey - New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States