A manualised preventive counselling program for Children Of Somatically Ill Parents (COSIP)

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: Child and adolescent psychotherapy and psychiatry, psycho-oncology
Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Registration Number: ISRCTN54562836

Lead Sponsor: German Cancer Aid [Deutsche Krebshilfe] (Germany)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

1. Wishing/seeking support
2. At least one parent has cancer
3. At least one child between 0-21 years

Exclusion Criteria

1. Neither parent has cancer (e.g. other chronic diseases)
2. No informed consent for study participation (the program is provided without study participation)
3. At least one parent has psychotic symptoms or a psychotic mental disorder (ICD-10 or DSM-IV)
4. Acute endangerment of child to self or others
5. Insufficient German language abilities
6. Insufficient mobility of ill parent (the program is then offered to other family members)

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Children?s health-related quality of life with Kid-Screen (8-18 years) rated from children?s and parents? view<br>2. Children?s behavioural and emotional problems measured with Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (11-18 years) rated from children?s and parents? view

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Parents? self-rated anxiety and depression measured with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) <br>2. Family Assessment Device (FAD) to measure familial functioning from parents? perspective <br>3. Family Crisis-Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales (F-COPES) to measure familial coping behaviour in crisis situations <br>4. Freiburg Questionnaire of Coping with Illness (FKV) to measure parental coping with illness <br>5. Health Survey (SF-8) to measure parental quality of life<br>6. Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-Risc) to measure six different resilience factors <br>7. Kid-Cope (13-18 years) to measure children?s and adolescent?s cognitive and behavioural coping with parents? cancer disease <br>8. Ad hoc developed intervention program rating scales to evaluate specific intervention contents and satisfaction with intervention; ratings from parents?, children?s (over 11 years) and counsellors? viewpoint