This $157,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) supports a pilot study to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of a 6-week nature meditation intervention for bereaved friend and family caregivers of cancer patients who died in hospice care. The intervention aims to promote wellbeing and grief recovery among this population by providing access to online nature-based healing meditation modules. Key objectives include developing the meditation content, assessing its impact on directed attention, grief, and quality of life measures, and evaluating the acceptability and feasibility of the program delivery. The study will be conducted by the partnership of Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences, who will recruit 55 bereaved caregivers in East Lansing, MI to participate in the longitudinal evaluation. Upon establishing the viability of this new intervention, the awardees plan to pursue a larger randomized controlled trial.
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