OCRA Distress & Unmet Needs

Primary Objectives: Caregivers of patients with gynecologic cancers are at risk for significant distress, which is further impacted by NMDOH. Although caregiver distress affects patient outcomes, it is not routinely measured or addressed in the clinical setting, and little is known about disparities in caregivers' distress and burden in a diverse gynecologic cancer population. We, therefore, propose the following objectives: 1. To measure distress and define the NMDOH needs of caregivers of patients with gynecologic cancers 2. To address unmet needs of gynecologic cancer caregivers through a semi-automated system to navigate caregivers to NMDOH and caregiving resources 3. To evaluate changes over time in caregivers' unmet needs and distress following receipt of a semi-automated, targeted caregiver resource navigation (CRN) system, and to explore associations between changes in caregiver needs/distress and patients' cancer-related outcomes and distress.