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Brief Title: Prostate Cancer: Family Care for Patients and Spouses
Official Title: Prostate Cancer: Family Care for Patients and Spouses
Study ID: NCT00708968
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine if a family-based intervention (The FOCUS Program) can improve the long-term quality of life and other psycho-social outcomes of men with prostate cancer and their spouses.
Detailed Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if a family-based intervention (The FOCUS Program) could improve the long-term quality of life and other psycho-social outcomes of men with prostate cancer and their spouse/partners. Aim 1. The first aim was to determine if the family intervention could improve several proximal clinical outcomes (less negative appraisal of illness or caregiving, less uncertainty, less hopelessness, better family communication, higher self-efficacy, and more problem-focused coping) and improve the distal clinical outcome, quality of life, in a culturally and economically diverse sample of men with prostate cancer and their spouses. Aim 2. The second aim was to test a stress-coping model designed to predict which prostate cancer patients and their spouses are at higher risk of poorer long-term quality of life.
Minimum Age: 21 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Wayne State University-Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, United States
William Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
Name: Laurel L Northouse, PhD RN
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR