A Pilot Clinical Trial of a Group Coping Intervention for English and Spanish Speakers with Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
A bilingual telehealth group program helps bone marrow transplant survivors cope with a common complication, now ready for larger testing.
This pilot trial of a bilingual (English/Spanish) telehealth group coping intervention for cGVHD survivors demonstrated strong feasibility and fidelity metrics in a predominantly Hispanic/Latino population, supporting scale-up to larger randomized trials. cGVHD affects up to 40% of allogeneic HCT survivors, who are chronically underserved in survivorship intervention research.
What the study was
- Study design
- Single-arm pilot clinical trial
- Population
- Adults with moderate/severe cGVHD at South Florida academic center, 71% Hispanic/Latino
- Sample size
- 21
- Category
- Treatment Innovation
- Maturity
- Exploratory
- Journal
- International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Why it surfaced
Bilingual pilot RCT addressing survivorship gap for cGVHD patients; underserved Hispanic/Latino population; serves as feasibility data for larger trials. Modest score due to small N and single-arm design.
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