🏛️ Verified NIH Protocol • Sourced via U.S. National Library of Medicine (Last Synced: 2026-05-26)

A Study of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers to People With Cancer

🟢 Recruiting Protocol / Phase N/A 🧠 Behavioral & Telehealth Program Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

🩺 Protocol Summary

Participants will complete 1 set of questionnaires about 2 weeks before beginning their Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers/MCP-C or standard Supportive Psychotherapy for Caregivers/SP-C sessions. These questionnaires will ask about participants' sense of meaning and purpose in life, spiritual well-being, depression and/or anxiety, and social support. Participants will then be assigned to receive either MCP-C or SP-C for 7 sessions. Participants will complete additional sets of questionnaires about 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months after their last session of MCP-C or SP-C. It will take between 35 and 50 minutes to complete each set of questionnaires. After participants complete the MCP-C or SP-C sessions and all 4 sets of questionnaires, their participation in this study will end. If participants decide not to complete all 7 sessions, they may still choose to complete the questionnaires. Participants may remain in the study and continue to receive all 7 sessions of MCP-C or SP-C even if their loved one passes away.

Primary Research Facility: University of Miami (Data Collection AND Data Analysis) (Miami, Florida)

📋 Preliminary Self-Screener

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Healthy adult volunteer with no active chronic exclusionary medical conditions?

Aged **18 Years or older**?

Able to participate in virtual/remote telehealth appointments and complete assessments via phone or online?

📍 Primary Site Map

Site: University of Miami (Data Collection AND Data Analysis) — Miami, Florida

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (8 Sites)

Multi-Center Trial

This protocol is enrolling participants across multiple clinical centers:

1. University of Miami (Data Collection AND Data Analysis) — Miami, Florida • Contact: (305) 243-8983

2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities) — Basking Ridge, New Jersey • Contact: (646) 888-0162

3. Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited protocol activities) — Middletown, New Jersey • Contact: (646) 888-0162

4. Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities) — Montvale, New Jersey • Contact: (646) 888-0162

5. Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk-Commack (Limited protocol activity) — Commack, New York • Contact: (646) 888-0162

6. Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only) — Harrison, New York • Contact: (646) 888-0162

7. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York • Contact: (646) 888-0162

8. Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activites) — Rockville Centre, New York • Contact: (646) 888-0162

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💰 Clinical Trial Costs & Insurance Coverage

Coverage for clinical trial participation varies depending on your health insurance policy, state legislation, and whether specific procedures are investigational research or routine medical care. Under federal law (Affordable Care Act § 2709), health insurers generally cannot drop coverage or refuse to pay for routine patient care costs incurred in approved clinical trials.

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🏛️ Official Government Provenance

NIH ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Record

NCT Identifier: NCT06307535 • Last Synced: 2026-05-26

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