Family-Staff Communication Intervention at the Time of Difficult Treatment Decision Making
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Difficult Decision Making
In brief
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 behalf of their child.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00827437
- Run by
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- People needed
- 401
- Starts
- 2004-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2012-04-23
Who can join
Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 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
You may not qualify if…
- 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).
Where it is running
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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