Feasibility
stoma
Among the 23 dyads (46 individuals) who completed the T1 survey, six dyads failed to complete the assessment at T2, including one deceased, one had stoma reversal, one withdrew from the study due to other life burdens, and three lost to follow-up. Although we used strategies suggested in other intervention studies to retain patients and caregivers [Although we could not reject the null hypothesis at the previously specified (and stringent for a pilot study) alpha level 0.05, the overall 