Trial of Family Focused Grief Therapy in Palliative Care and Bereavement
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Official title
Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Focused Grief Therapy in Palliative Care and Bereavement
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to learn how well family therapy works if given while a family member is being treated for a serious illness and whether it helps their family to continue meeting for a time after their death. The therapy aims to assist the family communication and support during both palliative care and bereavement. The investigators also want to learn how many family therapy sessions spread out over time are best for helping patients and their families. Patients are randomly assigned to one of three groups: patients who receive standard palliative care, patients and their families who take part in 6 sessions, and patients and their families who take part in 10 sessions.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00580515
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 700 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 12 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 7, 2005
- Primary completion
- Mar 10, 2026
- Completion
- Mar 10, 2026
- Last update posted
- Mar 12, 2026
2005 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Israel Hospice Program | New York | New York | 10003 | — |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
| Calvary Hospital | The Bronx | New York | 10461 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Mar 12, 2026 · Synced Sep 10, 2026
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