Trajectories of Regenerating Family Resilience in Adolescents With Cancer

NCT ID: NCT01395680

Last Updated: 2011-07-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2012-10-31

Brief Summary

Family resilience is an important strength to help family to manage life challenge successfully, and to reorganize family function. However, few studies have showed the trajectory of family resilience in adolescents with cancer over time. The purposes of this study are to know the trend of family resilience in adolescents with cancer from previous 3 months to the first year of newly diagnosed, and to examine the relationships among family members' stress, family satisfaction, and family resilience in adolescents with cancer.

Detailed Description

The inclusion criteria of adolescents with cancer are: 1) 12-20 years of age, 2) newly diagnosed with cancer about 3 months, 3) willing and able to complete own report questionnaires. The study is designed as repeated measurement. Considering attrition rate may be more than 60%. Therefore, of necessity, the proposed sample size was set at 60 families.

Data will be collected by a structured questionnaire (a demographic questionnaire and 4 scales). The study consists of four times of data collection time point as follows: approximately 3 month (t1), 6 months (t2), 9 months (t3), and 12 months (t4) after the diagnosis of cancer in adolescents. Each participant may take 20-30 minutes to finish the structured questionnaire.

Conditions

Cancer

Study Design

• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

cancer adolescent

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• terminal stage

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

National Taiwan University Hospital

Principal Investigators

Dong-Tsamm Lin, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Taiwan University Hospital,Taipei,Taiwan

Locations

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Central Contacts

Dong-Tsamm Lin, MD

Role: CONTACT

dtlin@ntuh.gov.tw

886-2-23123456 ext. 65399

Facility Contacts

Dong-Tsamn Lin, MD

Role: primary

dtlin@ntuh.gov.tw

886-2-23123456 ext. 65399

Other Identifiers

201105004RC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id