Narrative-based Card Game in Improving Spiritual Well-being Among Chinese Childhood Cancer Patients

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-01-01

Study Completion Date

2024-01-01

Brief Summary

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Cancer as a life-threatening disease can trigger children's unique spiritual needs. Unmet spiritual needs can cause low level of spiritual well-being, which is a central component for the overall quality of life (QoL) of cancer patients and was inversely associated with depressive symptoms, anxiety and a low level of hope. However, there has been no intervention focused on improving spiritual well-being among childhood cancer patients. Evidence from adult cancer patients suggests that narrative intervention can effectively address spiritual needs and improve spiritual well-being, while playing card game can combine an emotionally sensitive topic with an enjoyable activity, providing insight into the development of narrative-based card games for childhood cancer patients. The first objective of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of narrative-based card game among Chinese childhood cancer patients. The second objective is to evaluate the preliminary effects of narrative-based card game intervention on spiritual well-being, hope, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and QoL of childhood cancer patients at postintervention and at 1-, and 3-month follow-up postintervention.

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Detailed Description

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A pilot randomized controlled trial will be carried out. A convenience sample of 60 children with cancer will be recruited. Subjects who are randomized into the experimental group which will participate the narrative-based card game or into the control group which will play a PUKE card game only for entertainment purpose, that mimics the time and attention of the intervention. Feasibility measures (i.e., the eligibility rate, consent rate, randomization rate etc.) will be collected immediately after the completion of the intervention. Also, all subjects will be asked to complete structured questionnaires to assess their spiritual well-being, hope, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and QoL at postintervention and at 1-, and 3-month follow-up postintervention.

Conditions

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Pediatric Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Narrative-based card game

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Narrative-based card game

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This intervention aims to evaluate the preliminary effects of narrative-based card game intervention on spiritual well-being, hope, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and QoL of childhood cancer patients at postintervention and at 1-, and 3-month follow-up postintervention.

PUKE card game

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Narrative-based card game

This intervention aims to evaluate the preliminary effects of narrative-based card game intervention on spiritual well-being, hope, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and QoL of childhood cancer patients at postintervention and at 1-, and 3-month follow-up postintervention.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL