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.
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.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
36
psychosocial assessment and care
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Compare modes of illness adjustment, presence or absence of an inpatient lay care-partner, and survival rates
Time frame: Through 100 days post transplant
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