An observational study in Cancer, sponsored by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 8 Years to 17 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-04-08.
Sponsored by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · Observational
This investigation seeks to determine the feasibility of an electronic diary methodology among pediatric cancer patients and healthy matched controls. Levels of study participation and compliance will be assessed to assist with determining overall feasibility. Results will offer insight into the effectiveness of this means of data collection with a pediatric oncology population, and will examine how psychosocial and contextual factors contribute to the resiliency that has been demonstrated by children with cancer. Findings will provide data for the design and implementation of a future, larger-scale study with this pediatric population that implements an electronic daily diary methodology.
The study will include two phases of participant recruitment and participation. Phase I will include recruitment of six pediatric patients to pilot an electronic daily diary on an Apple iPad. These participants will be prompted by the iPad once daily for seven days, and will be asked to answer multiple choice and yes/no questions related to their daily experiences, activities and emotions. Following the week of daily diary completion, each participant in Phase I will engage in a brief feedback interview with a member of the research team to discuss his/her overall experiences using the electronic diary, including any technological issues that arise. The purpose of Phase I is to work out any technological and/or logistical problems associated with completion of the daily iPad diary.
After any technological problems have been addressed, Phase II of the study will begin. Child participants in Phase II of the study will complete several paper and pencil questionnaires on two separate occasions that assess factors including optimism, experience of various emotions, spirituality, relationships with others, benefit-finding, quality of life, and resiliency. Children will also complete two weeks of daily electronic diaries that will prompt them to answer multiple choice and yes/no questions related to their daily experiences, activities and emotions. One parent or guardian will also be recruited to participate, and will complete paper and pencil questionnaires on two separate occasions that ask about optimism, the parent-child relationship, spirituality, psychological functioning, and their perceptions of their children's behavior and mood.
Finally, following the completion of the first week of daily diaries, a short interview will be conducted with each child and parent dyad to gather information about the child's experiences using the electronic diary. They will be asked to provide feedback about any challenges and technological difficulties that they encountered, as well as their general thoughts about using the electronic diary. The interview will also include an opportunity to trouble-shoot difficulties associated with using the electronic daily diary in preparation for the second week of diary completion. For each participant, we anticipate a participation timeframe of 10-15 weeks.
Primary Objective:
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All eligible participants will be invited to participate in the research investigation, including children and parents of both genders and of all races/ethnicities.
St. Jude treats pediatric patients from across the country and around the world, which results in a culturally diverse pediatric population. Based upon enrollment patterns from previous investigations, it is anticipated that approximately 19% of enrolled pediatric participants will be racial/ethnic minority children. Because the control group will be matched to the pediatric group on variables of gender, age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, it is anticipated that the gender and race/ethnicity of the control group will be commensurate with that of the pediatric group.
Inclusion Criteria for Pediatric Participants:
Inclusion Criteria for Control Participants:
Exclusion Criteria:
Patient participants will include children and adolescents between the ages of 8-17 years who have been recently diagnosed with cancer. They will use an iPad as a diary to track their daily experiences. They will use an iPad as a diary to track their daily experiences.
Behavioral: iPad
For each pediatric patient enrolled, a child without a history of a serious medical illness will be recruited from the larger community who is matched on variables of age, race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. They will use an iPad as a diary to track their daily experiences. They will use an iPad as a diary to track their daily experiences.
Behavioral: iPad
The proposed investigation is a prospective case-control pilot study. The major goal of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of a daily diary methodology for monitoring the experiences of recently diagnosed pediatric cancer patients and healthy-matched peers. The investigation will also examine the relationships among individual and contextual factors that influence the daily psychosocial functioning of youth with cancer in comparison to youth without cancer.
Also known as: electronic diary
The number who agree to participate compared to the total number approached for the study.
The rate of agreement to participate in the study.
Time frame: Day 0 of study
The number of total days the participant was able to complete the daily diary.
The rate of completion of daily diary measures, and the number of participants who complete the study in its entirety.
Time frame: From on-study date through up to 4 months
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