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. 2019 Nov 12;16:100485. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100485

Table 3.

Intervention session content.

Title Length Topical Content
Introductory Call 5–15 min
  • Lay navigator introduced self and establishes relationship

  • Brief overview of Cornerstone sessions

  • Answer questions

  • Set up date and time for Session 1

Psychoeducational Sessions 1 Caregiving Story 20–60 min
  • Who you care for and your role as a caregiver

  • Discussion of present and future concerns

2 Coping with Stress 20–60 min
  • Present stress process model and discuss effects of stress on physical, psychological and social health

  • Helpful and unhelpful ways to cope with stress

3 Getting Help 20–60 min
  • Review reasons why caregivers do not ask for help

  • Review and discuss options for getting help with caregiving tasks

4 Improving Your Support Skills 20–60 min
  • Review tips for organizing health information, managing medications, and tracking symptoms

  • Guidance on communicating with patient

  • Review tasks undertaken by FCG

5 Taking Care of Yourself 20–60 min
  • Review and discuss importance of self-care

  • Discuss activities to maintain your own health?

  • Self-care assessment and health coaching support

6 Decision Making and Planning for the Future 20–60 min
  • Role of families in decision making in serious illness

  • Decisions about cancer treatment

  • Advance directives

  • Principles of communication in decision making

Monthly Follow-Up/ 5–30 min
  • Check in with FCG

  • follow up with action plan

Bereavement Call (for patients who die) 5–30 min
  • Offer condolences

  • Highlight grief resources