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Support for Bereaved Cancer Caregivers

Support for Bereaved Friend and Family Caregivers of Cancer Patients

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years old or older; Able and willing to provide reflexology
* Able to speak and understand English
* Have access to a telephone
* Able to hear normal conversation
* Cognitively oriented to time, place, and person (determined via recruiter)

Exclusion Criteria:

\- Unwilling to perform return demonstration with 90% accuracy

About the study

Friend and family caregivers of recently deceased cancer patients experience acute bereavement following the death. Post death bereavement is an intense period of mourning that includes an unfolding of the grief process and is characterized by strong emotions and demands on cognitive resources to those who have put aside their own needs to support the dying patient with cancer. This research will test the feasibility and acceptability of a nature-based healing meditation (NBHM) intervention to support cancer caregivers' during the bereavement process.

What is being tested

• Nature-based healing meditation (NBHM) intervention (other)

Sponsor: Michigan State University · Participants: 70 · Started: Nov 1, 2024

Contact the study team

• Rebecca H Lehto, PhD · Phone: (517) 353-4757
• Gwen Wyatt, PhD · Phone: (517)432-5511

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06662409

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Cancer (all types)
• Anxiety
• Depression

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 29, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.