Clinical trial · Interventional
Enhancing Connections Program in Improving Communication Between Patients With Incurable Cancer and Their Children
Enhancing Connections Program in Palliative Care: Taking Care of the Children
NCT02650583CI-TRIAL-00037090completedN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- 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)
This pilot clinical trial studies the use of the Enhancing Connections Program in improving communication between patients with incurable cancer and their children. The Enhancing Connections Program is an educational program that may provide patients with new competencies to improve communication with their children and help them to cope with their parent's incurable cancer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Malignant Neoplasm | Malignant Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Intervention | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Questionnaire Administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Supportive care (Enhancing Connections Program)
- description
- Patients participate in Enhancing Connections Program comprising of anchoring patients to help their child, adding to listening skills, building on listening skills, being a detective of their child's coping, and celebrating success for 5 sessions. Patients also receive workbook which includes text from the sessions, handouts, and at-home assignments to be completed between sessions.
- interventionNames
- Other: Educational Intervention
- Other: Questionnaire Administration
Primary outcomes (11)
- measure
- Change in EC-palliative care (PC) parents' and children's scores (parent-reported) on standardized questionnaires from baseline to post-intervention
- timeFrame
- Baseline to up to 3 months
- description
- Baseline scores will be compared with post-intervention scores on the same measures. Analysis of covariance will be used to test for significant differences between pre- and post-test scores.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 25 Years
- Maximum age
- 65 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Parents will be eligible if they have a diagnosis of incurable cancer of any type * Read and write English among their languages of choice * Have a child 5-17 years old living at home who has been told their parent's cancer diagnosis * The child does not have learning challenges Exclusion Criteria: * Parents will be excluded if they are enrolled in hospice at time of enrollment; (however, they will be allowed to continue in the study if they enroll in hospice after beginning the study) * Parents will be ineligible if their child lives in the home less than 50% of the time
References
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