Information to Parents of Children With Cancer. An Exploratory Study
NCT ID: NCT01502189
Last Updated: 2014-12-03
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
8 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2012-02-29
2013-08-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Parents of children with cancer have great information needs and report that these are not always met. Psychosocial suffering such as stress and anxiety is also common in this group.
HYPOTHESIS
An informational intervention emanating from the needs identified by parents is associated to decreased perceived stress, decreased depressive symptoms, decreased anxiety, increased satisfaction with information and decreased use of health care contacts in parents.
INTERVENTION
The intervention builds upon the Representational approach. This approach emanates from Leventhal's theories of illness representations and theories of conceptual change. Central qualities in the approach is that parents identify the area where information is needed themselves and that a thorough assessment of their current representation of that area is performed before information is given.
Each participating parent receives three rounds that consist of two meetings. Each round starts with a meeting where the parent identifies an area where he/she needs more information. The nurse and the parent jointly survey the parent's representation of the area and discusses consequences of knowledge gaps or misunderstandings. Then, new information is introduced and benefits from the new information is discussed. After some days, a follow-up meeting takes place.
DESIGN AND METHODS
The intervention will be evaluated using a single-case design (A-B-A-B-A-B-A) with 10 parents. All parents will receive the intervention, and repeated measures of the outcome variables both before and after will be used to assess the effect of the intervention. Data will be collected by web questionnaires with SMS- and e-mail reminders.
In parallel, a process evaluation aiming at describing treatment fidelity, experiences of participation and impact of contextual factors on the results. For this aim, qualitative interviews with participants and audio recording of intervention sessions will be used.
Conditions
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Study Groups
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Representational approach
The Representational approach as described in the detailed description.
Representational approach
The Representational approach as described in the detailed description. Each participating parent receives three rounds that consist of two meetings. Each round starts with a meeting where the parent identifies an area where he/she needs more information. The nurse and the parent jointly survey the parent's representation of the area and discusses consequences of knowledge gaps or misunderstandings. Then, new information is introduced and benefits from the new information is discussed. After some days, a follow-up meeting takes place.
Interventions
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Representational approach
The Representational approach as described in the detailed description. Each participating parent receives three rounds that consist of two meetings. Each round starts with a meeting where the parent identifies an area where he/she needs more information. The nurse and the parent jointly survey the parent's representation of the area and discusses consequences of knowledge gaps or misunderstandings. Then, new information is introduced and benefits from the new information is discussed. After some days, a follow-up meeting takes place.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
1. is diagnosed with a first occurrence of a malignancy that is curatively treated
2. was diagnosed two months ago
* Able to talk, read and write Swedish enough to be able to participate without an interpreter
* Have access to a computer and an internet connection.
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Umeå University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Ulla Hallgren Graneheim
Associate professor
Principal Investigators
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Ulla Hällgren Graneheim, Associate professor
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
Umeå University
Locations
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Umeå University Hospital
Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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PROJ07/029
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id