The Pediatric Intermed: A New Clinical Decision Making Tool
NCT ID: NCT01781481
Last Updated: 2016-07-26
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COMPLETED
148 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2010-04-30
2014-08-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Assessment of biological, psychological, social and health delivery of children's chronic illness has not been consistently integrated into the health care system. Physical and mental health services are often disconnected. Identifying those who would benefit from a mental health referral typically rests on the primary care physician or specialist and is often triggered by crises. There is also variability in physician education and comfort level in assessing psychosocial issues and especially in children with chronic illnesses in which symptoms of physical disease and mental health can overlap. Oftentimes this leaves the most responsible physician wanting for a simple assessment tool to try and determine who might be at risk and benefit from mental health intervention.
The adult INTERMED is a clinical decision-support tool that provides indicators of biological, psychological, social, heath care needs, as well as an overall index of case complexity. The tool is efficient to administer and has been successfully used by varied health care professionals in diverse medical settings to detect psychosocial needs, facilitate referral to effective services and improve health practices and outcomes. However, there is no comparable validated tool for use with children/youth.
The investigators have recently developed a pediatric adaptation of the adult INTERMED to address the unique developmental and social contexts of children and youth. A Delphi group of international experts in the field of pediatric chronic illness has reviewed the instrument to ensure clinical relevance, utility and communication clarity. Initial pilot data has demonstrated the Pediatric INTERMED has very good item inter-rater reliability. The focus of the current study is to examine the usefulness of this tool to identify biopsychosocial needs in IBD children/youth. Canada has a very high IBD incidence and prevalence. Given the facts that children with IBD face an unpredictable disease course, complex symptoms and difficult management regimens that can significantly impact their lives, it is not surprising that patients with this chronic incurable condition are highly vulnerable to mental health comorbidities. The development of this new tool will have significant importance if it proves to be useful in this population. The current study will examine a sizeable cohort of patients with regards to the relations between Pediatric INTERMED domains and other measures of children's disease, mood, behaviour, quality of life, family stress and strengths, and health services utilization. Both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in children and youth lend themselves very well to this study because of the validated measures of disease severity that have been developed already.
Implementation of the novel Pediatric INTERMED n clinical practice will provide a new way to assist IBD Teams in screening their patients to be proactive in referral to mental health resources, and facilitate case management which targets patient needs. Clearly, clinicians are well aware that compliance, anxiety and depression will affect disease outcomes and too often these are only dealt with at times of crisis that has led to disease flare or reports that medicines are no longer effective. Use of this structured assessment tool begins to realize the potential of developing a truly integrated biopsychosocial approach to this chronic disease. The ease of use and objective nature of the tool will enhance communication among primary and tertiary providers and contribute to best practice approaches in the provision of integrated physical and mental health care. It will also assist in monitoring the impact of childhood chronic illness, identify factors linked to optimal health outcomes and inform program planning and resource allocations.
Study Design
Children/youth (ages of 8-17) followed in the IBD Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) with confirmed diagnoses of IBD (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) are eligible for the study. A clinical nurse will complete the Pediatric INTERMED for all study participants: based on information obtained from a review of the patients' hospital chart and a semi-structured interview conducted with the child/youth and primary caregivers), Following the Pediatric INTERMED interview, children/youth and parents participating in the project will complete a battery of self-report instruments to provide assessments of patients' social and psychological functioning, parent/family stresses, adjustment and resources. In addition, information will be obtained from the patients' charts about aspects of their diagnoses, treatment regimens, disease activity and complications, and health care utilization in the 3 months prior to their participation in the study.
Primary Hypotheses/Objectives and Statistical Rationale
1. Demonstrate that the Pediatric INTERMED is a reliable tool for use in IBD children (good inter-rater reliability and internal consistency). 40 interviews with the clinical research nurse will be videotaped so that a second health care professional trained in the use of the PIM, can also complete the PIM tool, in order to examine inter-rater reliability. Agreement between raters will be measured by means of intraclass correlations. Items within each domain will be examined to confirm that they meet internal consistency criteria (Cronbach's Alpha of .80).
2. Demonstrate that the Pediatric INTERMED domains successfully identify patient needs. Concurrent validity of the Pediatric INTERMED will be examined by looking at the Spearman rank, Pearson correlations, as appropriate, between each domain score and the measures hypothesized to be conceptually linked to the domain. To assess aspects of the Psychological Domain, the patients will complete the Children's Depression Inventory, the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children and parents will complete the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL). Measures linked to the Social Domain of the PIM, include The Functional Disability Inventory, which taps the child's involvement in daily activities, and CBCL Competence Scores (Social, School, Activities), and the IMPACT-III, an IBD specific quality of life measure. To examine constructs linked to the Caregiver/Family Domain parents will complete the Pediatric Inventory for Parents, an index of childhood illness-related parenting stress, the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes and the Family Inventory of Resources for Management. Disease/treatment and health care data gathered will be used to validate the Biological and Health System Domains.
3. Demonstrate that Pediatric INTERMED Complexity score is predictive of increased health care utilization. A general linear approach will be used to study the relation of the Pediatric INTERMED to health service utilization. Multivariate models will also be tested including potential covariates such as disease severity, time since diagnosis.
Statistical Power Calculations
The CHEO GI clinic sees 40 to 60 new patients diagnosed with IBD per year. In 2007 the clinic actively followed 265 children with IBD. Once diagnosed children are followed on an ongoing basis. The frequency of follow-up appointments varies depending on the nature and course of a child's disease, but the children/youth are seen at minimum three times each year. In general, participation rates in studies of children/youth with chronic illness are typically in the vicinity of 80-90% or better and this figure is consistent with the experience of the CHEO IBD clinic in the recruitment of patients into various knowledge generation studies. The PIM involves 5 domains of information inclusive of various components. To achieve significance with the various domains the investigators estimated that a total of 140-150 children will need to be enrolled. This sample size is sufficient to ensure that there are a sufficient number of observations per variable to conduct multivariate analyses. Tabachnick and Fidell (2007) and others indicated that 4 is the absolute minimum number of observations per variable to conduct multivariate analyses. A subject size of 140-150 would be sufficient to provide 4 observations per variable. Further, the anticipated sample size is sufficient to conduct all proposed analyses. Further corrections for multiple testing will be applied on a per-analysis basis.
Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Study Groups
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Children and youth with IBD
Children/youth (ages 8-17) with confirmed diagnoses of IBD.
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* fluency in English or French
* between the ages of 8 and 17
* residing in the CHEO catchment area.
8 Years
17 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Janssen Inc.
INDUSTRY
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Janice S.Cohen
Psychologist
Principal Investigators
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Janice S Cohen, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Locations
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Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Countries
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09/32E
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Identifier Source: org_study_id
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