Dyads will include family caregivers and patients with a diagnosis of cancer who agreed to participate in a therapeutic clinical trial.

The BRI Care Consultation™ can be delivered via face-to-face contact, telephone, mail, and/or email by a Care Consultant and caregiver who assists with daily activities, tasks, and health-related issues. BRI CareConsultation™ uses a secure, web-based Care Consultation Information System (CCIS) to guide the delivery of the intervention.

Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) will be used to measure caregiver burden. The instrument was designed as a questionnaire with Likert-type responses ranging from strongly agree (1) to strongly disagree. The 24 items form 5 distinct unidimensional subscales that include: family burden (lack of family support; 5 items), financial burden (struggle with bills; 3 items), health burden (caregivers' health decline; 4 items), schedule burden (disruption of daily tasks; 5 items), and caregiving esteem (7 items), a positive subscale that measures enjoyment and importance of caregiving. A higher score on the caregiver's esteem subscale indicates a more positive effect of caregiving while higher scores on the other subscales indicate greater negative effects of caregiving in those domains

Assessment of multiple caregiver and patient domains addressed by the BRI Care Consultation program

Assesses patient quality of life. There are 27 questions, each of which is answered using a 5-point scale ranging from 0 (Not at all) to 4 (Very much). Questions are phrased so that higher numbers indicate a better health state.