ASKids! Inpatient Agenda-Setting Study for Hospitalized Children With Medical Complexity

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Medical Complexity

• Registration Number: NCT07127666
• Lead Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Brief Summary

The goal of this open pilot is to co-design and test a clinical agenda-setting intervention in the inpatient pediatric environment. We pilot a co-designed structured agenda-setting intervention (SAS) for multi-family meetings about children with medical complexity. Our open pilot will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using the SAS during routine multidisciplinary family meetings (MFM) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. By doing an open pilot, researchers will learn if the agenda-setting instrument and implementation process are feasible and acceptable to patients, their care partner and their clinicians.

Detailed Description

In this open pilot, the researchers will adapt and administer a novel structured agenda-setting tool (SAS) in the inpatient pediatric environment. The researchers will determine if their procedures for screening eligible participants, administering the intervention, and administering outcome and other questionnaires are appropriate. Learnings from the open pilot will feed forward into procedures in applications for larger trials of the intervention.

This study only has one arm, the intervention arm. The intervention, the co-adapted SAS, will be administered to all enrolled participants.

Future Directions: This open pilot will provide preliminary data for potential future larger trials.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2025-08
• Study First Submitted: 2025-08-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-08-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-08-14
• Study First Posted: 2025-08-17
• Last Update Posted: 2025-08-17
• Study Start: 2026-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2026-07
• Study Completion: 2026-07-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Pediatric Inpatients: Children aged 7-17 years
• Can communicate in English
• Able to provide verbal assent, with consent from their care partner
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center pediatric patient who currently or has recently (within the last 3 months) been hospitalized with a length of stay of 4≥ days Care Partners: - Adults aged 18≥ years
• Can communicate in English
• Able to provide verbal consent
• Care partners of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center pediatric patients who are currently or have recently (within the last 3 months) been hospitalized with a length of stay of 4≥ days

Exclusion Criteria

• For pediatric inpatients, children < aged 7
• For care partners, children aged <18 years
• Cannot communicate in English
• For pediatric inpatients, unable to provide verbal assent
• For care partners, unable to provide consent
• Prisoners

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary Outcome: Feasibility	Immediately after intervention delivery	Our primary outcome will be feasibility, assessed by the proportion of patients who receive the intervention.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary Process Outcome: Enrollment Rate	Immediately after intervention delivery	Description: As measured by participant enrollment in REDCap.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Dartmouth Hitchcock; 🇺🇸 Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States