Table 4.
Measurement overview
| Experimental conditions | Control condition | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure | Instrument | T0 | T1 | T2 | T3 | T0 | T1 | T2 | T3 |
| Socio-demographics and disease-related characteristics | |||||||||
| Socio-demographics of the partner | Sex, age, education, marital status, cultural background, children, work status | X | X | ||||||
| Disease-related variables of the patient | Sort of cancer, time of diagnosis, past and current treatment, current situation (prognosis) | X | X | ||||||
| Outcome measures | |||||||||
| Psychological distress | HADS total | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Mental health | MHC-SF | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Caregiver strain | CSI | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| General health | RAND 36 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Health-related quality of life | EuroQol EQ-5D | ||||||||
| Mediators | |||||||||
| Psychological flexibility | AAQ-II | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Self-compassion | SCS-SF | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Posttraumatic growth | PTGI-SF | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Resilience | BRS | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Sense of mastery | Pearlin Mastery Scale | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Support behavior | Active engagement scale | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Evaluation | |||||||||
| Client satisfaction | CSQ-8 | X | X | ||||||
| Evaluation form | X | X | |||||||
| Economic evaluation | |||||||||
| Healthcare consumption | TiC-P | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Production loss due to illness and absenteeism | PRODISQ | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Screening 1 | |||||||||
| Depression/anxiety (optional screening) | MINI (part: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, P) | X | X | ||||||
| Severity of symptoms | SDS | X | X | ||||||
1The MINI and SDS will only be administered in people who have moderate scores on HADS-A and/or HADS-D (score 11 - 14 on HADS-A and/or HADS-D).