Trajectories of Regenerating Family Resilience in Adolescents With Cancer

Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Trajectories of Regenerating Family Resilience in Adolescents With Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01395680
• Other study ID #: 201105004RC
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 14, 2011
• Last updated: July 14, 2011
• Start date: August 2011
• Est. completion date: October 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2011
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: Dong-Tsamm Lin, MD
• Phone: 886-2-23123456
• Email: dtlin[@]ntuh.gov.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Department of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Family resilience is an important strength to help family to manage life challenge successfully, and to reorganize family function. However, few studies have showed the trajectory of family resilience in adolescents with cancer over time. The purposes of this study are to know the trend of family resilience in adolescents with cancer from previous 3 months to the first year of newly diagnosed, and to examine the relationships among family members' stress, family satisfaction, and family resilience in adolescents with cancer.

Description:

The inclusion criteria of adolescents with cancer are: 1) 12-20 years of age, 2) newly diagnosed with cancer about 3 months, 3) willing and able to complete own report questionnaires. The study is designed as repeated measurement. Considering attrition rate may be more than 60%. Therefore, of necessity, the proposed sample size was set at 60 families.

Data will be collected by a structured questionnaire (a demographic questionnaire and 4 scales). The study consists of four times of data collection time point as follows: approximately 3 month (t1), 6 months (t2), 9 months (t3), and 12 months (t4) after the diagnosis of cancer in adolescents. Each participant may take 20-30 minutes to finish the structured questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: October 2012
• Est. primary completion date: October 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 12 Years to 20 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The inclusion criteria of adolescents with cancer are: 1) 12-20 years of age, 2) newly diagnosed with cancer about 3 months, 3) willing and able to complete own report questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria:

• terminal stage

Study Design

Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan,