Impact of a Novel Cancer Communication Intervention on Caregiver Bereavement
Description: PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Caring for a family member or friend with advanced cancer frequently affects caregivers' own health and well-being. Our team recently received NIH funding to determine whether an innovative health communication intervention for cancer doctors, patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers improves patients' quality of life. The proposed study will expand the focus to determine whether that intervention will have enduring, positive effects on the mental and physical health of family and friend caregivers after the patients have died. This is the first study to examine the effects on caregivers of an intervention that could potentially be readily integrated into ongoing, routine cancer care.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2013-01-23
End date: 2018-12-31
Investigator: PAUL R DUBERSTEIN
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Topic: Cancer survivorship and care
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 43
Funder award ID: R01CA168387
OpenAlex ID: G2255463536