Comprehensive support for families with parental cancer (Family-SCOUT), evaluation of a complex intervention: study protocol for a non-randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Families with minor children affected by parental cancer are at risk of considerable emotional and organizational stress that can severely burden all family members. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive support services for affected families. The aim of this project is to implement and evaluate a complex psychosocial intervention for these families by providing advice, information, and care on an emotional, psycho-social, and communicative level during and after the cancer experience and across healthcare sectors.

Methods

Family-SCOUT is a project supported by the German Innovation Fund ( https://innovationsfonds.g-ba.de/ ). The evaluation is based on a mixed-methods quasi-experimental design with the intervention and control groups. A standardized posta

SUBMITTER: Dohmen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442380 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature