Actively Recruiting
BOLSTER: Learning New Skills to Thrive
Led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Updated on 2026-04-28
600
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
228 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
D
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lead Sponsor
N
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This research study is evaluating a new program called Building Out Lifelines for Safety, Trust, Empowerment, and Renewal or (BOLSTER), which was designed to support participants with a gynecological or gastrointestinal cancer and new and complex care needs.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
BOLSTER: Learning New Skills to Thrive
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age 18 years or older
- Currently hospitalized with a skilled care need or have recently acquired a new skilled care need as an outpatient
- Diagnosed with advanced gastrointestinal cancer (including esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, hepatobiliary, colorectal, unknown GI primary, anal) or advanced gynecologic cancer (including ovarian, endometrial, cervical, vaginal, vulvar)
- Have a complex care need such as an ostomy, ileostomy, urostomy, nephrostomy, biliary drain, venting gastric tube, feeding tube, intraabdominal or pleural catheter, or wound VAC
- Plan to receive ongoing cancer treatment
- Have a family caregiver or friend willing to participate
- Able to speak and read English or Spanish
- Willing to be audio-recorded
- Have the cognitive and physical ability to participate in a 60-minute interview
- Family or caregiver is 18 years or older
- Family or caregiver is identified by the patient as involved in their care
- Family or caregiver is willing to participate in study visits and be audio recorded
You will not qualify if you...
- Cognitive impairments as determined by the patient's oncologist
- Planning to enroll in hospice care
- Unable to complete the baseline survey
- Adults unable to consent
- Individuals who are not adults (infants, children, teenagers)
- Prisoners
- Family or caregiver unable to complete baseline survey
- Family or caregiver adults unable to consent
- Family or caregiver individuals who are not adults
- Family or caregiver prisoners
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
Actively Recruiting
2
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
A
Alexi Wright, MD, MPH
CONTACT
I
Irene Wang, MPH
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Number of Arms
2
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