Decision Support Intervention of Minor Cancer Patients and Their Parents
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Decision-making information aids, Routine care.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pediatric Cancer, Adolescent Health, Decision Aids, Parents of Children With Cancer. Basic parameters: 7 years — 20 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Taiwan
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Effectiveness Evaluation on the Decision Preferences and Decision Support Intervention of Minor Cancer Patients and Their Parents
Overview
The purpose of this stuidy are: (1) to explore the information needs of parents having children with cancer when making treatment decisions; (2) to develop a Taiwan version of the Control Preferences Scale for decision support aids; (3) to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of involving minor cancer patients and their parents in treatment decision-making.
Interventions
- Other Decision-making information aids
Provide a decision-making information aids to assist patients and their parents in treatment decision making. - Other Routine care
Routine care
Primary outcome measures
- Exploring decision-making preferences among parents and minor using the Control Preferences Scale (CPS) [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
- Exploring the perceived involvement in decision-making among parents and minor using the Perceived Involvement in Care Scale (PICS) [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
- Exploring decision-making experiences of parents and minor using the Decision Conflict Scale (DCS) [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
- Exploring perceived family adaptability and cohesion among parents and minor using the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales IV (FACES IV) [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
- Exploring minor' coping behaviors in response to illness and treatment using the Paediatric Cancer Coping Scale [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
- Exploring minor' anxiety levels using the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale-2 (RCMAS-2) [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
- Exploring parental anxiety under different characteristics using the State-trait anxiety inventory (STAT) [Time frame: baseline and 1.3.6 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Inclusion Criteria for Parents:
- Age over 20 years.
- Child under 20 years old, diagnosed with cancer by a doctor.
- their child know her/his cancer diagnosis.
- Agree to have the child participate in family meeting and have ability to communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese.
- Inclusion Criteria for Minors:
- Aged between 7 and 20 years, diagnosed with pediatrtic cancer.
- Aware of their cancer diagnosis.
- Able to express their thoughts to the researcher in Mandarin or Taiwanese.
- Both the minor and their legal guardian consent to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
- Diagnosed with depression, and/or anxiety, and/or other mental disorders.
- Legal guardian is unwilling to inform the minor of their diagnosis.
- Minor is unwilling to share their thoughts with their parents.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
Taiwan · 1 center
- Kaohsiung Medical University — Kaohsiung City
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06651242 · KMUHIRB- SV(II)-20220022