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Brief Title: Stress and Coping in Caregivers of Younger Patients With Cancer
Official Title: Stress and Coping in Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Patients
Study ID: NCT02725385
Brief Summary: This research trial studies stress and coping in caregivers of younger patients with cancer. Learning how caregivers of children with cancer experience and cope with chronic stress may help to develop effective programs for reducing caregiver stress.
Detailed Description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine how the experience of distress and use of positive emotion coping strategies by pediatric cancer caregivers differs from caregivers of children with no chronic illnesses. II. To determine how relationships between positive coping strategies and caregiver distress change during the different phases of a child's illness. III. To explore how chronic caregiver stress affects physiological reactivity to and recovery from an acute laboratory stressor. IV. To explore how different positive coping mechanisms help chronically stressed caregivers recover from acute stressors and how these efficacies change during the different phases of the child's illness. OUTLINE: PART I: Participants complete a questionnaire that measures several psychological constructs including stress, anxiety, depression, coping mechanisms, uncertainty, positive and negative emotions, and life satisfaction over 15-30 minutes. PART II: Participants undergo a Trier Social Stress Test during a laboratory session over 1.5 hours.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Name: Christian Waugh
Affiliation: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR