AYA-PeerConnect: A Communication Coaching Intervention for Adolescent/Young Adult Cancer Survivors (AYACS)
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Enrollment
- 10
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Communication quality Multiple Goals Score
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This research is being done to test a communication coaching intervention pilot designed to improve communication quality between adolescent/young adult cancer survivors (AYACS) and their friends/peers. The results of the study will help to understand how to best support adolescent/young adult cancer survivors, and may inform the development or future implementation of similar programs for cancer survivor populations.
Detailed Description
This study is being done to test a communication coaching intervention designed to improve communication quality between adolescent/young adult cancer survivors (AYACS) and their friends/peers. The results of the study will help to understand how to best support adolescent/young adult cancer survivors, and may inform the development or future implementation of similar programs for cancer survivor populations.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 35 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Participant is currently ≥18-35 years old
- •Participant is receiving cancer-directed care at Penn State Cancer Institute or Penn State Children's Hospital
- •Participant has completed all cancer-directed therapy and is at least 1 year from end of cancer treatment (based on date of last cancer-directed treatment)
- •Participant has access to a computer with internet capability
- •Participant is fluent in written and spoken English
Exclusion Criteria
- •Participant is not fluent in written and spoken English
- •Participant with cognitive inability to participant in the study as determined by the study team
- •Participants with history of relapsed cancer
Arms & Interventions
Asynchronous coaching and artificial intelligence (AI) Yoodli coach sessions
The intervention will use a combination of asynchronous communication coaching sessions, and AI Yoodli coach sessions.
Intervention: Asynchronous coaching and artificial intelligence (AI) Yoodli coach sessions (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Communication quality Multiple Goals Score
Time Frame: Baseline
Rating process for communication quality analysis (CQA) domains. A domain score is calculated for each of the six communication quality domains (content, emotion, accommodation, engagement, relationship, and face). Using the emotion domain as an example, the neutral score is assigned as a "1," and as participants express emotion (as per the definition above and further detailed in the CQA codebook) the score increases with the highest quality score being "7". A domain score is assigned every five minutes for each of the six domains. The full range for each measure is 6 (most neutral)-42 (highest quality).
Communication quality Multiple Goals Score
Time Frame: Post intervention follow up visit (Up to a month)
Rating process for communication quality analysis (CQA) domains. A domain score is calculated for each of the six communication quality domains (content, emotion, accommodation, engagement, relationship, and face). Using the emotion domain as an example, the neutral score is assigned as a "1," and as participants express emotion (as per the definition above and further detailed in the CQA codebook) the score increases with the highest quality score being "7". A domain score is assigned every five minutes for each of the six domains. The full range for each measure is 6 (most neutral)-42 (highest quality).
Secondary Outcomes
- Anxiety(Baseline)
- Anxiety(Post intervention follow up visit (Up to a month))
- Depression(Baseline)
- Depression(Post intervention follow up visit (Up to a month))
- Social isolation(Baseline)
- Social isolation(Post intervention follow up visit (Up to a month))
Investigators
Pooja Rao
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center