Recruiting

Health Coaching

Sponsor:

Mayo Clinic

Code:

NCT07361159

Conditions

Wellbeing

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Health and Wellness Coaching

Study Details

Brief summary:

This is a pilot study examining the effects of telephonic health and wellness coaching on self-efficacy and caregiving burden for caregivers of patients awaiting heart or lung transplant.

Conditions

Wellbeing

Study ID

NCT07361159

Start date

Nov 18, 2025

Status verified date

Jan, 2026

Completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Aged 18 years or older
  • Primary caregivers of patients listed (active, deferred, or temporarily inactive) for lung, heart/lung, or heart transplantation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals younger than 18 years old
  • Individuals who are non-English speaking, non-verbal, or extremely hard of hearing

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Health and Wellness Coaching

All caregiver participants will be in arm 1 and receive the health and wellness coaching intervention.

Interventions

Health and Wellness Coaching

Participants will receive health and wellness coaching. Coaching sessions will occur via telephone with a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). Sessions will be motivational interview based and will be up to 30 minutes in length. Participants can receive up to 8 coaching sessions within 10 weeks.

Primary outcome measure

  • Caregiver Burden Scale (CBS) [ Time Frame: Completed at baseline and at study completion; 10 weeks after enrollment ]
  • Caregiver Self-Efficacy Scale [ Time Frame: Completed at baseline and at study completion; 10 weeks after enrollment ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Cassie Zell, MA, NBC-HWC

507-266-7765zell.cassandra@mayo.edu

Locations

Mayo Clinic

Recruiting

Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905

Contacts

Cassie Zell, MA, NBC-HWC

507-266-7765zell.cassandra@mayo.edu

Principal Investigator:

Cassie Kennedy, MD, MS

More Information

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Last update posted

Jan 30, 2026

Last verified

Jan, 2026

Keywords

  • Health and Wellness Coaching
  • Thoracic Transplant
  • Caregivers
  • Caregiver Burden
  • Caregiver Self-efficacy

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Mayo Clinic on 2026-01-30.