Spiritual Health Scale in Chinese Pediatric Cancer Patients

• Conditions: Child

• Registration Number: NCT05371236
• Lead Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Brief Summary

Pediatric cancer patients experience spiritual concerns such as meaningless, hopeless of life, fear of death and losses at all stages of illness. The availability of a valid and reliable instrument that accurately assesses the level of spiritual health among pediatric cancer patients is crucial before any appropriate interventions to solve their spiritual concerns can be appropriately planned and evaluated.

Detailed Description

The study aimed to adapt the 12-item Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-being Scale (FACIT-Sp-12) scale and validate it in Chinese pediatric cancer patients.

A two-phase sequential method design will be used. Phase I will use a descriptive qualitative approach to understand pediatric cancer patients' opinions related with spiritual issues and experience. At least 12 participants are expected to be interviewed. The results of the qualitative study will be used to compare with the items of the original scale, and emerging themes will be used to generate new items. Phase Ⅱ will translates and adapt the scale based on the result of Phase I. Further, the adapted version of the scale will be validated among 200 pediatric cancer patients.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-28
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study Start: 2022-05-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-07
• Study First Posted: 2022-05-12
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-12
• Primary Completion: 2023-03-01
• Study Completion: 2023-03-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• age 8-17 years old,
• diagnosed with any type of cancer who were treated at these sites at any point after their diagnosis,
• knowing about condition and prognosis of their disease,
• their parents agree to sign the informed consent form,
• able to communicate with Chinese and read Chinese.

Exclusion Criteria

• younger than age 8-17 years old
• cancer survivors

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The adapted spiritual well-being scale of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-12 (FACIT-Sp-12) for pediatric cancer patients	past senven days	For measuring participants' spiritual well-being
The Chinese version of the center for epidemiology studies depression scale for children (CES-DC)	past seven days	For measuring participants' depressive symptoms
Pediatric quality of life inventory 3.0 cancer module (PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module)	past seven days	For measuring participants' quality of life
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics	on that day filling out questionnaire	For collecting the background information of the participants, including their age, gender, educational attainment, household income, number of siblings, parents' marital status and religious belief. In addition, participants' medical records will be retrieved to acquire their diagnosis.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong