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Children's Resiliency, Adjustment, and Coping: Cancer-Related, Family Context, and Within-Child Factors


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6 Years
18 Years
Not Enrolling
Both
Leukemia

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Trial Information

Children's Resiliency, Adjustment, and Coping: Cancer-Related, Family Context, and Within-Child Factors


Parental Consent/Child Assent for Child Participants:

If you choose to take part in this study, you will be asked to complete a total of 2 or 3
questionnaires (depending on your age). Each questionnaire will be completed only once.

If you are between 6-7 years old, you will be given 2 questionnaires asking you about your
physical health and illness, and your personal strengths. These questionnaires will take
you about 30-45 minutes to finish. If you are between 8-18 years old, you will be given 3
questionnaires that will ask you about your physical health and illness, your personal
strengths, and your emotional adjustment to the disease. These 3 questionnaires will take
you about 30-45 minutes in total to finish. A research assistant will help you with the
questionnaires, if you need help.

If you are given the questionnaires while you are at the hospital and you cannot complete
them before you leave, you will be given a stamped envelope to mail the forms back to the
study staff.

After your questionnaires are finished, a member of the research team might look at your
medical chart if they need more information about your treatment or the status of the
disease.

Parent Participants:

If you choose to take part in this study, you will be asked to complete a total of 5
questionnaires. These questionnaires ask information about your child's emotional
adjustment to the disease, your child's physical health and illness, your child's personal
strengths, your emotional distress, and the overall functioning of your family. Each
questionnaire will be completed only once. It will take about 45-60 minutes to complete all
5 questionnaires.

Medical Staff Participants:

If you choose to take part in this study, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire that
asks for information about the patient's illness. It will take about 3-5 minutes to
complete this one-time survey.

All Groups:

This is an investigational study. About 220 people (100 children, 100 parents, and 20
medical staff) will take part in this multicenter study. About 130 will be enrolled at M.
D. Anderson (60 children, 60 parents, and 10 medical staff members).


Inclusion Criteria:



- Child who is 6 to 18 years of age or the parent or clinician of a child 6 to 18 years
of age.

- The child has a diagnosis of any type of leukemia

- Child and at least one parent or non-parent caregiver must speak and read either
English or Spanish well enough to complete questionnaires with some reading
assistance from the researcher.

- Child is currently receiving chemotherapy treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

- If the child is currently in a medical crisis as determined by his/her primary
physician (e.g., ICU admission, hospice care), he/she will not be considered for
participation.

- If the child and/or parent or non-parent caregiver is unable to comprehend the survey
questions, they will be excluded from participation.

Type of Study:

Observational

Study Design:

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

Outcome Measure:

Illness-related factors as predictors of child psychological adjustment to leukemia

Outcome Time Frame:

4 Years

Safety Issue:

Yes

Principal Investigator

Martha Askins, PhD

Investigator Role:

Principal Investigator

Investigator Affiliation:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Authority:

United States: Institutional Review Board

Study ID:

2005-0628

NCT ID:

NCT00489632

Start Date:

April 2006

Completion Date:

January 2011

Related Keywords:

  • Leukemia
  • Leukemia
  • Pediatrics
  • Cancer
  • Coping
  • Caregiver
  • Questionnaire
  • Children
  • Resiliency
  • Adjustment
  • Illness-related factors
  • Leukemia

Name

Location

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas  77030
University of Minnesota Medical Center-Twin Cities Minneapolis, Minnesota  55455