Video Inspired Discussions About Ethical Outcomes in Pediatrics
ConditionPediatric Cancer
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorMassachusetts General Hospital
About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the VIDEO-PEDS intervention works to improve Goals of Care communication between clinicians and parents of children with cancer.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Does the intervention improve Goals of Care documentation? Does it improve patient outcomes (including less invasive preferences for resuscitation and interventions, less hospital utilization, and more palliative care and hospice use)? Does it improve parent outcomes (including health satisfaction and feeling heard and understood per survey scores)?
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age 0-12 years
Diagnosed with any type or stage of cancer
Receiving cancer directed treatment
Decision maker for the child.
Disqualifiers
Not receiving primary medical care from the cancer clinic (e.g., second-opinion consultations only)
Already referred to and fully consulted by the palliative care team
Prognosis of less than a 2-month life expectancy
Visually impaired beyond 20/200 corrected and unable to view the video (note: hearing impaired is not an exclusion as the videos are closed captioned).
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- VIDEO-PEDS
- VIDEO-PEDS pilot
- Focus Group
Treatment groups
567 Participants
are divided into 4 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lead sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Collaborator
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Collaborator
Yale University
Collaborator
Emory University
Collaborator
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Collaborator
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov