At a glance
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Informational Meetings for Planning and Coordinating Treatment
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Novel Communication Intervention and Enhanced Usual Care Parent Education for End of Life and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 111 participants across 7 sites.
Signals
Detailed Summary
This prospective cluster-randomized trial examines the efficacy of a novel communication intervention delivered by trained physician and nurse dyads to parents of children with cancer within the clinicians' practice, to foster alignment of the goals of treatment. The investigators hypothesize that goal alignment will improve quality of life outcomes, in particular for those patients who reach end of life. Findings from the proposed research will provide essential information to promote communication practice standards that can be rapidly translated into practice to improve outcomes for children, particularly those who reach end of life, and parents.
Study Details
Timeline
Arms & Interventions
Parent(s) and patients receiving care from clinicians whose practice has been randomized to the enhanced usual care parent education group.
Parent(s) and patients receiving care from clinicians whose practice has been randomized to the novel communication intervention group.
Interventions
The intervention is a series of 3 guided discussions (using visual aids) between the child's primary oncology physician/nurse team and the child's parent(s) with the purpose of improving parental comprehension of the options for goals of treatment, along with the benefits and burdens of each option.
The Enhanced Usual Care Parent Education is a series of 3 discussions between the child's primary oncology nurse and the child's parent(s) designed to control for time and attention. These discussions are focused on answering parents' questions and reviewing routine disease and treatment related information. Parents will receive a 1-hour face-to-face session every 3-4 months for a total of 3 sessions. At each session, parents choose 2-3 topics to review with the nurse.