KEYS to Succeed: Cognitive and Academic Intervention Program for Children and Adolescents Surviving Cancer
NCT ID: NCT02573441
Last Updated: 2025-07-16
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
28 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2015-10-31
2018-05-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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This study will examine whether school liaison support and home-based parental tutoring can help address the academic difficulties of paediatric brain tumour survivors who have received cranial spinal radiation and who have returned to their community school. Forty five patients will participate in the project. First, all patients will receive psychology liaison services to link resources at the hospital with those in the community in order to provide information regarding the effects of pediatric cancer on learning and facilitate the implementation of appropriate assistive technology and remediation programs. Patients will then participant in one of two tutoring programs over the course of a 12 week period. One group of patients will participate in a program that addresses working memory with the intent of indirectly helping with mathematics skills. This program will be delivered over the internet. Another group of patients will participate in a program using a work book to directly help improve mathematics skills. Weekly phone calls will be used to support parents in doing the program. Patients will be tested before, immediately after, and six months following each tutoring program to assess growth in mathematics and working memory abilities. The two intervention programs will be compared to a waitlist control group that receives only the liaison service (including academic support through weekly phone calls over the 12 weeks).
The findings from this study will provide evidence about the type of intervention that is most effective at helping paediatric brain tumour survivors improve their mathematics skills and working memory ability.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Math + Liaison Service
To help with mathematics, participants will be assigned to a workbook based version of the JUMP Math program which will be completed at home with a parent. This intervention focuses on mental math skills. In addition all participants will receive the liaison service program.
Jump Math
Jump Math is a workbook based program aimed at improving math skills
Liaison Services
Liaison Services will include working closely with schools to help explain the strengths and weaknesses of a child based on cognitive testing and to help with the implementation of recommendations
Working Memory + Liaison Service
To help with working memory, participants will be assigned to Cogmed, a game-like computer exercise focusing on improving working memory. In addition all participants will receive the liaison service program.
Cogmed
Cogmed is an online computer program aimed at improving working memory skills
Liaison Services
Liaison Services will include working closely with schools to help explain the strengths and weaknesses of a child based on cognitive testing and to help with the implementation of recommendations
Liaison Services
Participants in this group will only receive the liaison service program for 12 weeks before being assigned to one of the intervention groups.
Liaison Services
Liaison Services will include working closely with schools to help explain the strengths and weaknesses of a child based on cognitive testing and to help with the implementation of recommendations
Interventions
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Jump Math
Jump Math is a workbook based program aimed at improving math skills
Cogmed
Cogmed is an online computer program aimed at improving working memory skills
Liaison Services
Liaison Services will include working closely with schools to help explain the strengths and weaknesses of a child based on cognitive testing and to help with the implementation of recommendations
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Is between 1 and 10 years following diagnosis
* Has English as his or her native language or has had at least two years of schooling in English
* Is between the ages of 6 and 17
* Less than a Grade 8 equivalent math score
Exclusion Criteria
* Is receiving palliative care
6 Years
17 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
OTHER
The Hospital for Sick Children
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Donald Mabbott
Program Head, Neurosciences & Mental Health
Principal Investigators
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Donald Mabbott, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
The Hospital for Sick Children
Locations
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Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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1000043747
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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