Quality of Life Clinical Trial
— NEUROCOG-QOLOfficial title:
Assessment of Executive and Socio-cognitive Functions in Child and Adult Survivors of Primary Brain Tumor: Impact on Patients' and Relatives' Quality of Life.
Significant advances in primary malignant brain tumors (PBT) treatment have led to
dramatically improved survival, both in children and adults. However, survival has not come
without a cost and aggressive treatment methods associated with significant long-term adverse
effects, often referred to as "late effects" (Panigrahy & Blüml, 2009). These effects are the
medical, physical, cognitive and psychosocial sequelae associated with cancer and its
treatments that generally emerge two to five years after treatment ends (e.g., Landier &
Bhatia, 2008).
The most serious challenge survivors of brain tumors face may be cognitive dysfunction. One
especially important cognitive domain is executive functioning, which refers to essential
factors such as problem-solving, goal-directed behavior and the ability to maintain stable
interpersonal relationships (Lezak et al., 2004). Despite the potential impact of executive
impairments on behavioral regulation and quality of life, few studies were conducted with
survivors of PBT specifically for the assessment of executive functioning. Another
fundamental neuro-cognitive domain is social cognition, which refers to the ability to
understand the intentions and beliefs of others (Frith & Singer, 2008). Social cognitive
deficits are expected to impair autonomy and relationships, but scarce attention has been
devoted to the study of social cognition in survivors of PBT and no study has attempted to
compare socio-cognitive data and measures of health-related quality of life. It is noteworthy
that executive function and socio-cognitive skills improve throughout childhood and
adolescence, and improvements in these skills have frequently been attributed to maturation
of the brain, especially the prefrontal cortex (e.g., Tamnes et al., 2010). This suggests a
greater impact of the disease and its treatment on these functions in children/adolescents.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 160 |
Est. completion date | September 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | September 2018 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 8 Years to 59 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Age between 8 and 59 - Children/adolescents and adults who have been treated by chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy and/or neurosurgery, subsequent to the diagnosis of a primary brain tumor - The end of treatment must be comprised between 2 and 5 years at the time of the assessment, as argued above. Exclusion Criteria: - Sensory disturbances (e.g., visual, auditory) incompatible with the achievement of the tasks - Language or praxis deficits inconsistent with the achievement of the tasks - Neurological disease other than PBT - secondary brain tumor - Psychiatric history (consultation with a psychiatrist of the University Hospital if doubt) - Insufficient French language proficiency |
Country | Name | City | State |
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France | CHU Angers | Angers |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University Hospital, Angers |
France,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | performances in executive tasks and executive questionnaires | Executive functions will be assessed using executive cognitive tasks (Stroop task for inhibition, Modified Card Sorting Task for mental flexibility, Digit spans for working memory) and questionnaires (BRIEF for childrens and BRIEF-A for adults) for executive behavioral measures. Standardized norms in French are available for these tasks, which permit determining if the performances are pathological. So, these multiple measurements will be aggregated to determine the number of patients with pathological performances for executive tasks (tasks and questionaires). |
2 years | |
Primary | performances in social cognition tasks | The first task involves a mental representation or belief about the state of the world (eg, Samson, 2012). The items offered in this kind of task are used to assess the ability to understand that the belief to infer in a type of scenario does not correspond to the reality. The second task will be the Faux Pas task (Stone et al., 1998). This task is composed of written scenarios and the subject must detect if someone has done or said something he should not have said- the "faux pas". If the subject detects that there was a faux pas, additional questions are asked to detect whether he/she understands the cognitive side and the emotional side of the faux pas. Standardized norms in French are available for these tasks, which permit determining if the performances are pathological. These multiple measurements will be aggregated to determine the number of patients with pathological performances. |
2 years | |
Secondary | quality of life questionnaires | Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) will be assessed in adults with the French validated version of the 36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36; Ware & Sherbourne 1992) and a specific questionnaire for assessing quality of life of patients with brain tumors (QLQ-C30-BN20), commonly used in the international literature (eg, Chen et al, 2012;. Pulenzas et al, 2014). Regarding the HRQOL assessment in children, the choice fell on the Peds-Ql. The PEDS QL measures HRQOL with three major composite assessments -psychosocial, physical, and total HRQOL. Standardized norms in French are available for questionaires, which permit determining if the performances are pathological. These measurements will be aggregated to determine the number of patients with abnormal performances for these questionaires. |
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