NCT04218682

Shadows Edge Mobile Developing Resilience in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

Narrating Their Story: Shadow's Edge Mobile Game Use to Enhance Resilience and Identity Formation Among Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 177 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the efficacy of an interactive mobile game, Shadow's Edge, on enhancing resilience, promoting identity development, and decreasing somatic symptoms among adolescent and young adult survivors of cancer.

Detailed description

Approximately 80% of youth treated for cancer during childhood will survive long-term; however, the majority of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors (AYACS) report at least one chronic health condition. These medical and cognitive-psychological late effects can disrupt or interfere with continual adaptation to post-treatment life, thereby negatively impacting identity formation and inhibiting AYACS from seeking fulfilling academic, career, and social relationship experiences. The Shadow's Edge mobile app was created for adolescent and young adults with complex medical conditions as an enjoyable and engaging digital, first-person perspective game that uses principles of narrative and creative arts therapies to encourage youth to reflect on, and create brief, developmentally-relevant narratives about, their life experiences. In this trial, investigators will conduct a two-arm, waitlist randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the Shadow's Edge game in promoting resilience and identify formation among AYACS. Participants will be 175 AYACS who receive clinical care in a large, pediatric cancer survivorship program. Data will be collected from medical records, mobile game play statistics, participant narratives and art created in the game platform, and participant responses to standardized assessments. Information gathered through this study will be used to establish initial game efficacy and to lead to Shadow's Edge game enhancements that will further improve acceptability and effectiveness of the game. The ultimate goal of this project is to provide a freely accessible, enjoyable and engaging self-led game that may bolster resilience resources, improve quality of life, and promote identity formation among adolescents and young adults with complex medical conditions.

Conditions

• Cancer
• Pediatric Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Shadow's Edge Mobile Application Gameplay	6 weeks of individual, interactive game play of the Shadow's Edge mobile app.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-10
• Primary completion: 2020-04-01
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2020-01-06
• Last updated: 2024-11-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States