Communication Memory of Cancer Diagnosis Within the Pediatric Triangle
- Conditions
- Memory
- Interventions
- Other: Communication memory
- Registration Number
- NCT04392908
- Lead Sponsor
- Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS
- Brief Summary
Present project aims to investigate memories related to a cancer communication diagnosis in pediatric oncology. It evaluates possible common elements and specificity between family and healthcare staff.
- Detailed Description
Lots of scientific evidences have shown that autobiographical episodes' narrative has a beneficial effect on the elaboration of memories. Indeed, narrating is a way to order thoughts and moods, which are connected to particular episodes of one's life, in order to rework and relive them. Since the diagnosis, a relationship and an open and sincere dialogue between the various parts of the pediatric triangle can promote a process of adaptation to the experience of illness and an integrated biopsychosocial healing. The first aim of this study is to explore and analyze autobiographical memories of pediatric patients, parents and healthcare staff. Also, it aims to investigate possible common and discordant element between deposition.
Phases of the present study:
1. Sample recruitment and informed consent collection.
2. Diagnosis communication audio recording.
3. Communication of the autobiographical memory of the diagnosis audio recording of patients, parents, oncologist, nurse and psychologists involved, the day after the communication.
4. Questionnaire APAM administration for adult participants.
5. Audio Transcription and data coded. Data will be registered and operated by means of statistical software as SPSS (IBM) and T-Lab (Lancia, 2004).
6. Statistical processing: ANOVA and t of Student tests will be implemented in order to compare collected questionnaires. Narrative analysis will be implemented by means of textual analysis software.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Patients Communication memory Pediatric patients from 12 to 17 with cancer diagnosis only taken by Meyer Children's Hospital prior consent. Knowledge of fluent Italian language is required Parents Communication memory Parents of pediatric patients prior consent. Knowledge of fluent Italian language is required Medical Staff Communication memory Medical staff including doctor, psychologist and nurse
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical memory One day after diagnosis Self report questionnaire "Assessment of the Phenomenology of Autobiographical Memory - APAM"
Emotional characteristics of autobiographical memory One day after diagnosis linguistic analysis by Linguistic Inquiry Word Count - LIWC; cluster analysis by T-Lab; Content analysis; coherence and narrative structure by High Point Anaysis.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Meyer Children's Hospital
🇮🇹Firenze, Italy