The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility and short- and long-term efficacy of an empirically-based CST intervention (Keefe et al.) with caregivers of patients with primary malignant brain cancer. The target sample will be 20 caregiver-patient dyads. Using a randomized controlled, prospective design, potentially eligible participants will be identified at the time of initial consultation (see Figure 1). Outcomes will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention (3 months post-randomization), 6 months post-randomization, and every 4 months up to 2-years in the event that the patient dies. With only 10 subjects per group the investigators do not have statistical power for direct hypothesis testing.

Nevertheless, p-values will be presented for some analyses (chi-square tests, t-tests, and Spearman correlations) simply to aid in interpretation of results. In no way will these p-values be used to declare statistical significance or non-significance of the test results. Accordingly, the primary focus will be the means, variances, and covariances of the study endpoints, as well as the change scores in these endpoints across the study intervention and their 95% confidence limits. Type the research abstract in the box to the left. You can also copy and paste the abstract from another document.