Outlook: An Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Serious Illness

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

154

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 28, 2010

Primary Completion Date

September 30, 2013

Study Completion Date

September 30, 2013

Conditions
NeoplasmsPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveHeart FailureRenal Disease
Interventions
OTHER

Outlook Attention Control

Subjects in the relaxation meditation group will meet with a facilitator three times, for a period of forty-five minutes each; they will listen to a non-guided relaxation CD.

OTHER

Outlook Intervention

The Outlook intervention is designed to assist patients self-manage role changes by guiding them through life review, current issues of forgiveness and conflict resolution, and future orientation, with planning heritage and legacy.

Trial Locations (1)

27705

Duke University Medical Center, Durham

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

NIH

lead

Duke University

OTHER

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