Improving the Well-Being of People With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers: Protocol for an Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Dyadic Digital Health Intervention (FOCUSau)

Peter Hudson   ^{1, 2} , DipAppSci (Nursing), BN (Hons), PhD ;   Jill Francis   ^{3, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Joachim Cohen   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Suzanne Kapp   ³ , BN, PGDipAdvNsg (Community), MNSci, PhD ;   Richard De Abreu Lourenco   ⁶ , BEc, MEc, PhD ;   Lisa Beatty   ⁷ , BPsych (Hons), PhD ;   Kathleen Gray   ⁸ , PhD ;   Michael Jefford   ^{4, 9} , MPH, MHM, PhD ;   Ilona Juraskova   ¹⁰ , MPsych (Clin), PhD ;   Laurel Northouse   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Aline de Vleminck   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Sungwon Chang   ¹² , MStat, PhD ;   Patsy Yates   ¹³ , DipAppSc, BA, MSocSc, PhD ;   Sophy Athan   ¹⁴ , BA, GDip Lib, GDip Socail Pol, MA ;   Shaira Baptista   ^{3, 15} , BSc, GDip (Psych), PhD ;   Marlena Klaic   ³ , BOT (Hons), PhD ;   Jennifer Philip   ¹⁶ , GDip PallC, MMed, PhD

¹ Centre for Palliative Care, c/o St Vincent’s Hospital and The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

² End of Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

³ Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁵ Centre for Implementation Research, Ottawa Hospital Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁶ Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

⁷ College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

⁸ Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁹ Department of Health Services Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁰ Faculty of Science, School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

¹¹ School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

¹² Faculty of Health, Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

¹³ Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia

¹⁴ Cancer Consumer Advisory Committee, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Alliance, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁵ School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁶ St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia