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NCT Number: NCT06960993

Mosaic Trial for Stem Cell Transplant Recipients

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if using an intervention website (Mosaic) improves selected patient-reported outcomes in adult blood cancer patients undergoing allogeneic or autologous stem cell transplant, compared to using an educational website (control group). Patients will be recruited prior to their scheduled transplant, then randomized to use one of these two study websites throughout the study. They will complete five assessments during the study: one before transplant (baseline) and four after transplant (2, 4, 6, and 8 month follow-ups).

The main questions this trial aims to answer are:

1. Compared to patients using the control group website, do patients using the intervention website report greater improvements in general psychological distress, cancer treatment-related distress, physical symptoms, and health-related quality of life? 2. Are these benefits at least partially explained by improvements in perceived preparedness, self-efficacy, and approach coping and/or reductions in avoidant coping and perceived stress? 3. Do some patients benefit more from using the intervention website than others? Specifically, we will examine whether patients' primary language (English/Spanish) and their initial psychological distress are related to the benefit they get from using the intervention website. We will also explore effects of sex, race, ethnicity, and transplant type.

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Key information

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosed with a hematologic cancer according to medical records
  • Scheduled for or preparing for scheduling of an allogeneic or autologous stem cell transplant at one of our study sites
  • Aged 18 or older (no upper limit)
  • English or Spanish Proficient
  • Interested in using a website to learn about stem cell transplant
  • Ability to understand and willingness to sign an informed consent document and comply with all study procedures

Exclusion criteria

  • Currently participating in a behavioral intervention targeting distress, health-related quality of life, or symptoms
  • Undergoing the first in a planned tandem stem cell transplant
  • Unable to provide meaningful consent (severe cognitive impairment or language difficulties)

Treatment and study plan

Intervention website

Behavioral

Website that includes experiential information, stress and coping resources, educational content, and links to trusted websites with additional educational content and links to psychosocial resources for transplant recipients and caregivers.

Enhanced Usual Care (Control) Website

Behavioral

Website that includes stress and coping resources, educational content, and links to trusted websites with additional educational content and links to psychosocial resources for transplant recipients and caregivers.

Primary outcomes

  1. Improvement in general psychological distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 months post-transplant

    Improvement in general psychological measured with the PROMIS-57 Profile v2.1 emotional distress composite score. Raw scores are calculated and converted to T scores ranging from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more severe distress.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Improvement in general psychological distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 4 months post-transplant

    Improvement in general psychological measured with the PROMIS-57 Profile v2.1 emotional distress composite score. Raw scores are calculated and converted to T scores ranging from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more severe distress.

  2. Improvement in general psychological distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 6 months post-transplant

    Improvement in general psychological measured with the PROMIS-57 Profile v2.1 emotional distress composite score. Raw scores are calculated and converted to T scores ranging from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more severe distress.

  3. Improvement in general psychological distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 8 months post-transplant

    Improvement in general psychological measured with the PROMIS-57 Profile v2.1 emotional distress composite score. Raw scores are calculated and converted to T scores ranging from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more severe distress.

  4. Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 months post-transplant

    Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress measured with the 23-item CTXD measure. The total score is calculated as the mean response across the items, yielding a score ranging from 0 to 3. Higher scores indicate greater distress.

  5. Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 4 months post-transplant

    Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress measured with the 23-item CTXD measure. The total score is calculated as the mean response across the items, yielding a score ranging from 0 to 3. Higher scores indicate greater distress.

  6. Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 6 months post-transplant

    Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress measured with the 23-item CTXD measure. The total score is calculated as the mean response across the items, yielding a score ranging from 0 to 3. Higher scores indicate greater distress.

  7. Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress

    Time frame: Baseline to 8 months post-transplant

    Improvement in cancer treatment-related distress measured with the 23-item CTXD measure. The total score is calculated as the mean response across the items, yielding a score ranging from 0 to 3. Higher scores indicate greater distress.

  8. Improvement in symptoms

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 months post-transplant

    Improvement in symptoms measured with the MDASI-Core. The measure's 13 core symptom items assess the severity of symptoms on a 0-10 numerical rating scale from 0 (not present) to 10 (as bad as you can imagine). These ratings are averaged into symptom severity score ranging from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.

  9. Improvement in symptoms

    Time frame: Baseline to 4 months post-transplant

    Improvement in symptoms measured with the MDASI-Core. The measure's 13 core symptom items assess the severity of symptoms on a 0-10 numerical rating scale from 0 (not present) to 10 (as bad as you can imagine). These ratings are averaged into symptom severity score ranging from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.

  10. Improvement in symptoms

    Time frame: Baseline to 6 months post-transplant

    Improvement in symptoms measured with the MDASI-Core. The measure's 13 core symptom items assess the severity of symptoms on a 0-10 numerical rating scale from 0 (not present) to 10 (as bad as you can imagine). These ratings are averaged into symptom severity score ranging from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.

  11. Improvement in symptoms

    Time frame: Baseline to 8 months post-transplant

    Improvement in symptoms measured with the MDASI-Core. The measure's 13 core symptom items assess the severity of symptoms on a 0-10 numerical rating scale from 0 (not present) to 10 (as bad as you can imagine). These ratings are averaged into symptom severity score ranging from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.

  12. Improvement in health-related quality of life

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 months post-transplant

    Improvement in health-related quality of life measured with the PROMIS Global-10 scale V1.2. Final scores are created by summing responses to each of the 10 items, then converting the raw score into two summary T-scores, each ranging from 0-100: one for Global Physical Health and one for Global Mental Health. Higher scores indicate better quality of life in the given domain.

  13. Improvement in health-related quality of life

    Time frame: Baseline to 4 months post-transplant

    Improvement in health-related quality of life measured with the PROMIS Global-10 scale V1.2. Final scores are created by summing responses to each of the 10 items, then converting the raw score into two summary T-scores, each ranging from 0-100: one for Global Physical Health and one for Global Mental Health. Higher scores indicate better quality of life in the given domain.

  14. Improvement in health-related quality of life

    Time frame: Baseline to 6 months post-transplant

    Improvement in health-related quality of life measured with the PROMIS Global-10 scale V1.2. Final scores are created by summing responses to each of the 10 items, then converting the raw score into two summary T-scores, each ranging from 0-100: one for Global Physical Health and one for Global Mental Health. Higher scores indicate better quality of life in the given domain.

  15. Improvement in health-related quality of life

    Time frame: Baseline to 8 months post-transplant

    Improvement in health-related quality of life measured with the PROMIS Global-10 scale V1.2. Final scores are created by summing responses to each of the 10 items, then converting the raw score into two summary T-scores, each ranging from 0-100: one for Global Physical Health and one for Global Mental Health. Higher scores indicate better quality of life in the given domain.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Christine Rini, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

312-503-7715

Sonia Zavala

CONTACT

[email protected]

312-503-8134

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Northwestern University

Other

Collaborators

  • Georgetown University
  • Hackensack Meridian Health
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Registry information

Official study title

Mosaic: RCT of a Digital Health Intervention for English- and Spanish-speaking Stem Cell Transplant Recipients

Acronym: Mosaic

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2030
First posted
May 7, 2025
Registry last updated
Jul 8, 2026

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