NCT04888195

Symptom Clusters in Hong Kong Chinese Children With Blood Cancer

Symptom Clusters in Hong Kong Chinese Children With Blood Cancer:: A Longitudinal Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pediatric blood cancer is the most common childhood malignancy. Despite its survival has been substantially improved, children still have to pay a high price for numerous distressing symptoms resulted from chemotherapy. Previous studies related to symptom experiences mainly focus on individual symptoms, rather than on multiple symptoms. Understanding these distressing symptoms may help healthcare professionals to develop appropriate and effective interventions with the aims of alleviating symptom severity and thus promoting the child's psychosocial well-being and quality of life.

Detailed description

A longitudinal study design will be conducted. A sample of 120 patients age 5-17years, diagnosed with blood cancer but not yet receive any chemotherapy and able to communicate with Cantonese and read Chinese will be recruited in the pediatric oncology ward of Hong Kong Children's Hospital.

Conditions

• Child

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	Participants will complete a set of validated questionnaires (TRSC-C and demographic sheet) before chemotherapy. They also have to complete the same questionnaires (TRSC-C) again within 1 week after the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th , 5th and 6th courses of chemotherapy via telephone interview by our research assistants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2024-09-01
• Completion: 2024-09-01
• First posted: 2021-05-17
• Last updated: 2022-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong