Symptom Clusters in Hong Kong Chinese Children With Blood Cancer:: A Longitudinal Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C)
研究概览
简要总结
Pediatric blood cancer is the most common childhood malignancy. Despite its survival has been substantially improved, children still have to pay a high price for numerous distressing symptoms resulted from chemotherapy. Previous studies related to symptom experiences mainly focus on individual symptoms, rather than on multiple symptoms. Understanding these distressing symptoms may help healthcare professionals to develop appropriate and effective interventions with the aims of alleviating symptom severity and thus promoting the child's psychosocial well-being and quality of life.
详细描述
A longitudinal study design will be conducted. A sample of 120 patients age 5-17years, diagnosed with blood cancer but not yet receive any chemotherapy and able to communicate with Cantonese and read Chinese will be recruited in the pediatric oncology ward of Hong Kong Children's Hospital.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 5 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •aged 5 - 17 years old
- •diagnosed with blood cancer but not yet receive any chemotherapy
- •able to communicate with Cantonese and read Chinese
排除标准
- •who are scheduled to have concurrent cancer treatment
- •with recurrent malignancy
- •medical condition, or cognitive and learning problems in their medical records
结局指标
主要结局
The therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C)
时间窗: Before chemotherapy
For measuring the occurrence and severity of symptoms experienced by patients aged 5-17 when they undergo cancer treatment.
The therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C) at 3-month
时间窗: At 3-month follow-up
For measuring the occurrence and severity of symptoms experienced by patients aged 5-17 when they undergo cancer treatment.
The therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C) at 1-week
时间窗: At 1-week follow-up
For measuring the occurrence and severity of symptoms experienced by patients aged 5-17 when they undergo cancer treatment.
The therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C) at 1-month
时间窗: At 1-month follow-up
For measuring the occurrence and severity of symptoms experienced by patients aged 5-17 when they undergo cancer treatment.
The therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C) at 6-month
时间窗: At 6-month follow-up
For measuring the occurrence and severity of symptoms experienced by patients aged 5-17 when they undergo cancer treatment.
Demographic sheet
时间窗: At baseline
collect the background information of our subjects, including their age, gender, educational attainment, parents' marital status and religious belief
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Dr Eva Ho
Assistant Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University