A Mobile Instant Messaging-Delivered Psychoeducational Intervention for Cancer Caregivers: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Psychoeducational interventions (PEIs), which provide both information and emotional and psychosocial support, may address the unmet needs of the caregivers of adolescent and young adult patients with cancer.

Objective

To explore the effects of an instant messaging-delivered PEI on anxiety, depression, quality of life (QOL), and coping and determine whether the intervention reduces caregivers' unmet needs.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial using an intention-to-treat protocol was conducted from April 1 to September 14, 2022, in a tertiary cancer hospital in China and included caregivers of patients diagnosed with cancer at age 15 to 39 years recruited using convenience sampling.

Intervention

Caregivers were allocated 1:

SUBMITTER: Cheng Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10884881 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature