Non Hodgkin Lymphoma Clinical Trial
Caregiver Support in the Coping of Patients Who Are Undergoing a Donor Bone Marrow Transplant
Summary
RATIONALE: Questionnaires that measure coping may improve the ability to plan supportive care for patients undergoing donor bone marrow transplant.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying coping in patients who are undergoing a donor bone marrow transplant.
Full Description
OBJECTIVES:
Investigate the relative importance of having a consistent inpatient lay care-partner for patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, in terms of the effects on modes of adjustment to illness and survival.
OUTLINE: Patients undergo a 40-minute recorded oral interview in person to provide personal and social demographic data using a 20-item questionnaire (The Adjustment to Illness Questionnaire-Bone Marrow Transplantation) at baseline (pre-transplant) and at day 100 post-transplant.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study.
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Medically suitable for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Resides locally in the Cleveland, Ohio area
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Not specified
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Cleveland Ohio, 44195, United States
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