Insights From Bereaved Parents and Oncologists
ConditionCommunication
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital
About this trial
Investigators want to find better ways for doctors and families to talk about cancer and how uncertainty may affect a child's life.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
All participants must be ≥ 18 years of age or legally emancipated
Received cancer care from a clinician at St. Jude, as documented in the electronic medical record, AND
Died at least 6 months prior to enrollment, but no more than 24 months prior to enrollment.
Be listed as the primary oncologist as documented in the electronic medical record, AND
Disqualifiers
Declining, refusal, or unwillingness to participate
Inability or unwillingness of research participant to give informed consent.
Trial population
Parents who have lost a child to cancer and the doctors who treated them.
Trial design
Design model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
50 Participants
are grouped into 2 trial groupsGroup A: Parent Participants
Group B: Oncologist Participants
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Bereaved parents of children with cancer and oncologists reflections on communication about prognostic uncertainty during the child's cancer treatment
The analysis plan for this study is to apply reflexive thematic analysis as described by Braun and Clarke, involving the following six step process: 1. Familiarization with the data, 2. Generating initial codes, 3. Generating initial themes, 4. Reviewing themes, 5. Refining, defining, and naming themes, 6. Writing up a narrative of results. Investigators will conduct individual interviews with participants and code transcripts independently to identify salient themes from each cohort, subsequently compare codes across cohorts to explore and characterize areas of convergence and divergence and use a matrix approach to facilitate this comparative analysis. Interviews will be recorded, transcribed, and de-identified prior to analysis. MAXQDA, a sophisticated qualitative analysis software system, will be used to conduct and synthesize analysis.
Time frame
Approximately 1-3 weeks after enrollment.Sponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov