Status:
COMPLETED
Family-Staff Communication Intervention at the Time of Difficult Treatment Decision Making
Lead Sponsor:
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Conditions:
Difficult Decision Making
Eligibility:
All Genders
21+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The primary aim of this single site study was to assess the feasibility of implementing a staff/parent communication intervention within 72 hours of the parents making an end-of-life decision on behal...
Detailed Description
Parents/guardians of children with incurable cancer face end-of-life decisions on behalf of their child including whether or not to enroll their child in a Phase I study, whether or not to agree to a ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Eligible parents/guardian can be enrolled only one time and will be:
- 21 years of age and older.
- This study will enroll only parents/guardians who are 21 years of age and older. The investigators clinical experience is that when the parent/guardian is younger, additional adult members of the family are involved in the decision making and that asking a single person to identify him or herself as the primary parent/guardian creates difficulties for the family.
- As a result, no parent/guardian younger than age 21 will be enrolled in this study.
- English-speaking.
- Willing to give written consent to participate.
- The parents/guardians of a child with incurable cancer or a fatal cancer-related condition who is being treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- The parents/guardians who made an end-of-life decision on behalf of the seriously ill child within the previous 72-hours.
- Eligible staff can be enrolled more than one time and will be:
- English-speaking
- Willing to give written consent to participate
Exclusion
- Parents/guardians who meet the above criteria but are identified by their attending or social support staff member (an assigned social worker or psychologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) as emotionally or mentally unable to participate in the informed consent process will not be approached about participating in the study.
- Parents who are identified by their attending or social support staff member as likely to find the study too burdensome because of their emotional or mental state.
- Parents who did not make the end-of-life decision (i.e., when the patient made the decision).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
401 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00827437
Start Date
January 1 2004
Last Update
April 23 2012
Active Locations (1)
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105