NCT07127666

ASKids! Inpatient Agenda-Setting Study for Hospitalized Children With Medical Complexity

Centering Children and Care Partners in Complex Pediatric Hospital Stays: Evaluation of a Structured Inpatient Agenda-setting Intervention for Multidisciplinary Family Meetings

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this open pilot is to co-design and test a clinical agenda-setting intervention in the inpatient pediatric environment. We pilot a co-designed structured agenda-setting intervention (SAS) for multi-family meetings about children with medical complexity. Our open pilot will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using the SAS during routine multidisciplinary family meetings (MFM) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. By doing an open pilot, researchers will learn if the agenda-setting instrument and implementation process are feasible and acceptable to patients, their care partner and their clinicians.

Detailed description

In this open pilot, the researchers will adapt and administer a novel structured agenda-setting tool (SAS) in the inpatient pediatric environment. The researchers will determine if their procedures for screening eligible participants, administering the intervention, and administering outcome and other questionnaires are appropriate. Learnings from the open pilot will feed forward into procedures in applications for larger trials of the intervention. This study only has one arm, the intervention arm. The intervention, the co-adapted SAS, will be administered to all enrolled participants. Future Directions: This open pilot will provide preliminary data for potential future larger trials.

Conditions

• Medical Complexity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Structured Agenda-Setting Tool	We are testing a novel clinical visit agenda-setting intervention developed through participatory research methods for the pediatric inpatient environment. This structured agenda-setting (SAS) intervention will be co-designed to include structured discussion topic areas with the option for patients (when appropriate) and their care partners to consider and indicate their priority topic areas and take notes before, during, and after a clinical visit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-05-01
• Primary completion: 2026-07-01
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2025-08-17
• Last updated: 2025-08-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States