Nurse-initiated Conversations for Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
AgeUp to 18
SponsorChildren's Hospital of Fudan University
About this trial
This study aims to develop and implement a pediatric palliative care (PPC) program. It is an open-label, randomized trial (2:1 randomization) in pediatric oncology department of Children's Hospital of Fudan University. The intervention group will receive Nurse-initiated Conversations for Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology (NiCE). The control group will receive routine PPC (will be scheduled to meet with the PPC team only when participants themselves, their families, or the attending oncologist requested an appointment). The intervention will take 6 months.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Children within eight weeks of initial oncologic diagnosis or within eight weeks of relapse/recurrent disease diagnosis
Children speaking Chinese
Children's family caregivers accompanying the child in the hospital (only one family member is eligible to take this role under current hospital policy)
Children's family caregivers speaking Chinese
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- NiCE
- Routine PPC
Treatment groups
120 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov