Stimulating communication within families with a child with cancer: the possible role of newly designed products.<br>

Completed

Conditions: psychosociale ontwikkeling
communication barriers and demotivation

Registration Number: NL-OMON45559

Lead Sponsor: Delft University of Technology

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

In order to be eligible to participate in this pilot-study, the following criteria have to be meet: ;-The families we want to invite for our study, need to be interested in trying out new interactive prototypes;
-The patients should be currently under treatment and aged:
between 6 and 10 years old to interact with AscoltaMe;
between 10 and 16 years old to interact with Mr.V;
-In the study we will include families (parents and siblings) with patients under treatment for leukaemia or solid tumours (siblings can be in the same age range of the patients or also be younger then 6 years old/ older then 16 years old);
-However, the patients in treatment must present a stable/low risk protocol treatment and they must not be hospitalized in the week when the study with the prototype will be scheduled;
-Only Dutch-speaking families will be asked to participate, therefore an understanding of the English language will not be necessary.

Exclusion Criteria

Any of the following criteria will be reason for exclusion from participation in this pilot-study:;-Patients in treatment (and family of the patients) with a high risk protocol treatment;
-Hospitalized patients ( or scheduled to be hospitalized in the week selected for the pilot-study);

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Qualitative analysis of interview-data referring to the experiences of using<br /><br>the prototypes, the perceived influence of prototypes by family-members on<br /><br>family routine, and the appreciation of the prototypes as a decorative objects. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures