Evaluation of Grief Therapy Approaches for Bereaved Parents

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

415

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 31, 2022

Primary Completion Date

May 31, 2026

Study Completion Date

May 31, 2026

Conditions
GriefBereavementCancer
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy

Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy is a therapy that focuses on helping participants find a sense of meaning or purpose in participants' life after participants' loss. Parents will be provided (via mail or email) a workbook. This support program will involve 16 sessions that will take place about once a week. Each session will last 60 to 90 minutes and will be delivered through videoconferencing.

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive Psychotherapy

Supportive Psychotherapy will help participants cope with participants' loss by giving them a place to express participants' feelings and providing participants with support during the sessions. Supportive counseling will involve 16 sessions that will take place about once a week. Each session will last 60 to 90 minutes and will be delivered through videoconferencing.

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Usual Care

Enhanced usual care includes any support or resources participants may receive as part of participants' standard care (for example, therapy sessions with a local therapist), enhanced with additional resources.

Trial Locations (4)

10065

RECRUITING

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

19104

RECRUITING

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Data Collection Only), Philadelphia

33136

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

University of Miami, Miami

38105

RECRUITING

St Jude's Children's Hospital (Data collection only), Memphis

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

NIH

lead

University of Miami

OTHER