Clinical trial · Observational
How Family Coping With Child Cancer Affects Child's Quality of Life?
How Families Cope With Child Cancer? A Longitudinal Study on the Role of "We-appraisals" on Child's Health-related Quality of Life
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents will be contacted and invited to participate. Upon agreement, children will be interviewed, both parents will fill out questionnaires and be additionally interviewed. Using a 3-wave longitudinal design, mainly self-reported parental we-appraisals and we-disease-appraisals, couple dyadic coping (DC) and parent-child DC during a course of 12 months will be examined. Additionally, during brief separate interviews, the parents' speech will be coded for we-appraisals and expressed emotion regarding the other partner and the child. Findings will provide information on how family variables affect child QoL over 12 months.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatric Cancer | Childhood Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
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Design
Arms and outcomes
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[]Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Child quality of life
- timeFrame
- Three time points in a 12- months trajectory: 4/6 weeks after cancer diagnosis (T1), 6 months after diagnosis 1 (T2), and 12 months after diagnosis (T3)
- description
- Interview based on the DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Measure long version (DCGM-37) (Ravens-Sieberer et al., 2007)
Secondary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Child posttraumatic stress disorder
- timeFrame
- Three time points in a 12- months trajectory: 4/6 weeks after cancer diagnosis (T1), 6 months after diagnosis 1 (T2), and 12 months after diagnosis (T3)
- description
- Interview based on the University of California Los Angeles Child PTSD Reaction Index (Pynoos \& Steinberg, 2013, German Version Landolt, 2014)
- measure
- Parental psychological adjustment
- timeFrame
- Three time points in a 12- months trajectory: 4/6 weeks after cancer diagnosis (T1), 6 months after diagnosis 1 (T2), and 12 months after diagnosis (T3)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 6 Years
- Maximum age
- 17 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Children between 6 and 17 years old diagnosed with cancer (4-6 weeks) as listed on the Swiss Cancer Registry * Parents of children recently diagnosed with child cancer * Caregiver parent living together with another partner in a committed relationship for at least one year. Exclusion Criteria: * Ill children with pre-existing severe cognitive and physical disability (physician's rating) * Ill children with single parents
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