Impact of Sick Peer Relation on Adaptation to Disease and on Treatment of Cancer-suffering Adolescents & Young Adults

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-12-07

Study Completion Date

2024-01-25

Brief Summary

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Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer have to deal with a relatively segmented organization of care between pediatric and adult medicine structures in France. However, the third french Plan Cancer 2014-2019 helped in the recognition of the specificities of the AYA affected by cancer and allowed the creation of specific structures in some care units in France, whose primary goal is the preservation of the social link.

Indeed, peer relations contribute to access to quality social support, which is an important variable in patient adjustment with cancer. The adolescents that perceive higher social support report less psychological distress and exhibit higher adaptation scores.

It nevertheless happens that AYA experience negative social support, often from friends because of contact reduction during the disease. Patients can then elect to turn towards non-intimate relations such as support groups. The main risk when a AYA with cancer defines a sick peer as one bringing him quality social support is the installation of a sense of guilt, for example, when a young person is confronted with disease negative progress or with peer death. The more an adolescent identifies with the deceased, the more he is able to consider his own mortality.

AYA units are developing in France, creating a community of sick adolescents. These communities are precious for AYA and allow information and experience sharing, a feeling of reduced isolation and a greater emotional closeness with peers suffering from the same disease.

How is social support from peers and close friends perceived by these young people in AYA units and through the social networks? What can the consequences of the evolution of peer disease be on AYA? What is the impact of the mourning of sick peers on these young people? What are the predictors?

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Detailed Description

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Methodology: Multicentric, prospective, not randomized study.

Conditions

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Cancer Adolescent Behavior Young Adult

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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AYA

Questionnaires set all 3 months and psychological interviews if needed

Group Type OTHER

Questionnaires set all 3 months

Intervention Type OTHER

This longitudinal study based upon repeated and multicentric measurement will recruit AYA with cancer in care Units dedicated to them or not. Measures will be quantitative, and repeated every 3 months by questionnaires, as well as qualitative (social network questionnaire, psychological research interview) for teenagers declaring a negative event or a death event during treatments.

Those patients presenting a high depression score will be contacted by a research psychologist for semi-directed interview.

Interventions

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Questionnaires set all 3 months

This longitudinal study based upon repeated and multicentric measurement will recruit AYA with cancer in care Units dedicated to them or not. Measures will be quantitative, and repeated every 3 months by questionnaires, as well as qualitative (social network questionnaire, psychological research interview) for teenagers declaring a negative event or a death event during treatments.

Those patients presenting a high depression score will be contacted by a research psychologist for semi-directed interview.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Psychological interviews

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Adolescents or young adults from 15 to 27 years old (included) receiving cancer diagnose or recurrence announcement.
2. Patient information and free consent signature by the patient or his legal representative(s).

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patient with any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol.
2. Inability to understand, talk or write in French.
3. Patient individually deprived of liberty or placed under the authority of a tutor.

Minimum Eligible Age

15 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

27 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No