Metacognitive Intervention in Youth With Oncological Disease - the Mio Study

NCT ID: NCT06464237

Last Updated: 2025-11-26

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-08-01

Study Completion Date

2027-05-01

Brief Summary

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The aim of the Mio-Study is to address the current lack of effective treatment options to reduce cognitive and physical long-term problems in children and adolescents with cancer. Through the use of the Mio-App, cognitive and physical development will be strengthened and metacognitive thinking and awareness will increase.

The Mio-App for children and adolescence with cancer will include a combination of cognitive and physical training tasks and prospective as well as retrospective metacognitive questions. In a randomized controlled trial, the App will be analysed for its efficacy on metacognitive thinking and executive functions. In particular, the investigators are interested in factors that affect the efficacy of the training program such as compliance, age, sex or the presence of fatigue. This study will give insight into the role of metacognition in cognitive and physical performance and will foster the development of children and adolescents with cancer in the long-term.

Detailed Description

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In the Mio-Study, the investigators are developing a training app at the interface between neuropsychology and sports science - the Mio-training. The aim of the Mio-training is to strengthen the cognitive and motor development of children and adolescents after cancer in the long-term. The App contains a combination of cognitive and physical training tasks and metacognitive questions to promote knowledge and awareness of one's own thinking. In order to counteract the shortage of skilled workers and the increasing specialization of individual specialist areas, solutions are needed that can be implemented without a lot of staff. From today's perspective, there are hardly any trainings for children and adolescents that show long-term effects on cognitive and motor development and can also be transferred to non-trained tasks in school and everyday life.

The investigators are testing the effectiveness of the Mio-training in a randomized clinical trial (RCT) and expect a strengthening of metacognition and core cognitive functions (i.e. executive functions). The Mio-Study will provide information about the role of metacognition in cognitive and physical performance and, ideally, provide evidence for a novel, interdisciplinary rehabilitation strategy for children and adolescents after cancer.

Conditions

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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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Training group

Training with Mio-App for 5 weeks, three times per week.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Mio-App

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The Mio-App aims to increase metacognitive knowledge, teaches mnemonic skills, trains the working memory capacity and motor skills to reduce cognitive and physical long-term sequelae after cancer during adolescence.

Control group

Waiting control group. Participants may use the Mio-App after completion of the last follow-up assessment.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Mio-App

The Mio-App aims to increase metacognitive knowledge, teaches mnemonic skills, trains the working memory capacity and motor skills to reduce cognitive and physical long-term sequelae after cancer during adolescence.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Mio-Training

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Informed consent as documented by signature (see Informed Consent Form) of participants and / or parents / legal guardians
* Age 8-16 years
* A diagnosis of cancer either with or without CNS involvement. The participant will be included between 3 months before to 10 years after termination of treatment.
* Treatment of cancer including either radiation, chemotherapy and/ or surgical tumor removal
* German or French speaking

Exclusion Criteria

* Any other instable neurological condition (e.g. epilepsy)
* A severe psychiatric disease (e.g., eating disorder) or severe learning disability
* Known or suspected non-compliance
* Drug or alcohol abuse
* Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems
* Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

16 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Bern

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Regula Everts, Prof. Dr.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

Locations

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Insespital, University Hospital Bern

Bern, , Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Switzerland

Central Contacts

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Regula Everts, Prof. Dr. phil.

Role: CONTACT

+41 31 632 84 97

Saskia Salzmann, MSc

Role: CONTACT

+41 31 664 59 84

Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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BASEC2023-01196

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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