Burden of Cancer in Children: A Pilot Study to Investigate the Impact and Content of Video Illness Narratives

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: Video Illness Narrative

• Registration Number: NCT00793299
• Lead Sponsor: University of Rochester

Brief Summary

In order to gain a greater understanding of the full experience of children with life-threatening illness, this study will provide video cameras to ten to fifteen 10-18 years olds in active treatment for cancer, and instruct them to make video illness narratives over the course of 1-3 months. The narratives will be studied as an intervention; each of the participants will be administered a measure of physical symptoms (the Memorial Symptom Assessment scale 10-18) and a measure of self-esteem (the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale). The video narratives will also be analyzed for content by theme in order to understand the participants' experiences in their own words. Our hypothesis is that these narratives will provide insight into the lives of children with cancer, increase their self-esteem, and decrease symptom distress, and improve communication between patients and their doctors.

Detailed Description

In addition to the above outcome measures:

The video narratives will also be analyzed for content by theme in order to understand the participants' experiences in their own words.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-11
• Study First Submitted: 2008-11-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-11-18
• Study First Posted: 2008-11-19
• Primary Completion: 2009-06
• Study Completion: 2009-09
• Status Verified: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-04-24
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 11

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosed with cancer
• Age 10-18
• In active treatment for cancer
• Followed at the Strong Memorial Hospital/Golisano Children's Hospital

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-English Speaker
• Cognitively impaired so as to make data collection difficult

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Video Illness Narrative	Video Illness Narrative	single arm pilot study

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale	3 mopnths

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong; 🇺🇸 Rochester, New York, United States