The Good Patient Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 43
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Preferred decision-making role
研究概览
简要总结
Adolescents with cancer weigh multiple influences in medical decision-making, including their own best interest, the perceived wishes of family members, and the interpreted preferences of the health care team. Parents of children with cancer often describe themselves as trying to be a good parent in making decisions in the child's best interest. Adolescents with cancer often describe themselves as trying to be a good patient and good child in making decisions in accord with how they believe a good patient and good child would decide.
Among the challenges of caring for adolescents is the reality that the formative relational influences in adolescents' decision-making are both complex and unique due to adolescent patients' social networks and relational roles. Delineating adolescents' definitions of being a good patient, a good child, a good sibling, and a good friend may enable the care team to better understand the formative decisional influences relevant to adolescents with cancer. Expanding knowledge about the decision making constructs relevant to adolescents with cancer and recognizing the role of these social constructs in medical interactions has the potential for development of a comprehensive care model that methodically evaluates the self-assessed decision making influences and needs of adolescents at various stages in oncology care.
This qualitative construct-defining study represents an initial step in the development of enhanced interventions for improved psychosocial support in this vulnerable population.
详细描述
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
- Describe the ways relationships and social interactions may factor into adolescent study participants' approach to decisions;
- By reports from adolescents with cancer, identify behaviors from members of the study participants' social network that would be helpful to adolescents in fulfilling their preferred role in medical decision-making and achieving the desired level of participation in medical decision-making;
- Identify adolescent participants' preferred role in medical decision making.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
- Develop definitions of being a "good" patient, child, sibling, and friend from adolescent participant reports (will also welcome the study participant to self-declare any additional relational constructs they may wish to report);
- Describe how the adolescent study participant believes his or her "good" patient, child, sibling, and friend definition may have changed over time;
- Describe the self-assessed positive and negative aspects of trying to achieve the meanings of the "good" patient, child, sibling, and friend constructs from adolescent participant reports;
- Describe the actions of members of the study participant's social network which may help the study participant reach his/her definition of being a "good" patient, child, sibling, and friend.
Participants will participate in a one-time voice-recorded, face-to-face interview consisting of open-ended questions. Completion of the interview is expected to take less than one hour.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 19 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Participants must be between 12 and 19 years of age at the time of enrollment.
- •Participants must have primary care team approval to participate.
- •Participants must be English-speaking.
- •Participants must carry an oncologic diagnosis.
- •Participants must be within four months of initial oncologic diagnosis or within four months of relapse/recurrent disease.
排除标准
- •This study lacks any exclusion related to pregnancy (an Institutional Review Board requirement for enrollment of females who are capable of becoming pregnant), lactation or plans to become pregnant and lacks any exclusion of males fathering children while on study.
- •Patients who, in the opinion of their physician, are not capable mentally or verbally of participating in the interview, will be excluded from the study.
结局指标
主要结局
Preferred decision-making role
时间窗: Once, at enrollment
Identify adolescent participants' preferred role in medical decision making.
Factors contributing to decision-making
时间窗: Once, at enrollment
Describe the ways relationships and social interactions may factor into adolescent study participants' approach to decisions.
Behaviors that make a positive impact on decision-making
时间窗: Once, at enrollment
By reports from adolescents with cancer, identify behaviors from members of the study participants' social network that would be helpful to adolescents in fulfilling their preferred role in medical decision-making and achieving the desired level of participation in medical decision-making.
次要结局
未报告次要终点