Parent Educational Discharge Support Strategies

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Educational Activities

In brief

After the initial hospitalization, parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer assume responsibility for assessing and managing their care; however, parents are often overwhelmed with information received throughout the hospitalization and are apprehensive about caring for their child at home. Parents want concise, focused information on how to care for their child after the hospital discharge. Two parent education discharge support strategies (PEDSS) were created to use at hospital discharge. PEDSS consists of a symptom management intervention and a support for the caregiver intervention. A cluster randomized control trial will assess the effectiveness and feasibility of the two different interventions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03227068

Run by

Duke University

People needed

289

Starts

2017-12-29

Expected to finish

2020-06-29

Last updated by the study team

2020-06-30

Who can join

Age: 3 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• A parent (referred to as "parent" but includes a parent or legal guardian) of a patient 3 to 17 years of age who is newly diagnosed with any type of malignant disease on an inpatient oncology unit
• Must speak English, Spanish, or Arabic
• Child will be or is receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy

You may not qualify if…

• A parent of a child diagnosed with histiocytosis or any hematological disease considered non-malignant
• A parent whose child received the initial cancer diagnosis and initial cancer treatment while hospitalized on a non-oncology unit (i.e., surgical ward)
• A parent of a child who is experienced a relapse of a malignant disease
• A parent who is the primary caregiver of the child with cancer and is illiterate

Where it is running

• Nicklaus Children's Hospital — Miami, Florida, United States
• Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Northwestern Central DuPage Hospital — Winfield, Illinois, United States
• Maine Children's Cancer Program at Maine Medical Center — Scarborough, Maine, United States
• St. Louis Children's Hospital — St Louis, Missouri, United States
• St. Peter's University Hospital — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
• Cohen Children's Medical Center Northwell Health — New Hyde Park, New York, United States
• Levine Children's Hospital — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Nationwide Children's Hospital — Columbus, Ohio, United States
• Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital — Charleston, South Carolina, United States
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee, United States
• Children's Health System of Texas Children's Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States
• West Virginia University Medicine — Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
• University of Wisconsin Health American Children's Hospital — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
• King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre-Riyadh — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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