Clinical trial · Interventional
Enhancing Adjustment to Parental Cancer: Short-term Counselling for Families
Enhancing Adjustment to Parental Cancer: Short-term Counselling for Families. A Randomized, Wait-list Controlled Intervention Study
- 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)
A parental cancer diagnosis challenges the family's stability and the parent-child relationship. It may impact the children's well-being, so that about one third of them develop clinically relevant levels of psychological distress. Psycho-oncological family-based counselling programs have been shown to elevate children's and parents' well-being. However, there is still a dearth of familial health services in Switzerland, which has also been recognized by the Swiss National Cancer Program (2011-2017). This study aims to implement and evaluate a short-term family counselling intervention at the Cancer Center of the University Hospital Basel. The primary objective of the study is the enhancement of adjustment to the parental cancer diagnosis. The study seeks secondary to determine the feasibility of the short-term counselling Intervention.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Psychological Adjustment | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short-term Counselling for Families | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Counselling
- description
- short-term counselling for families
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Short-term Counselling for Families
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Wait-list control group
- description
- Wait-list control group
Primary outcomes (5)
- measure
- Change of children's quality of life on the health-related quality of life questionnaire (KINDL)
- timeFrame
- 6 weeks (change between baseline and week 6)
- description
- Enhancement of children's quality of life from T1 (baseline) to T2 (6 weeks) compared to the wait-list control group.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Months
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Informed Consent as documented by signature * Diagnosis of any kind of cancer, inclusive relapse, within the last year with an expected survival of at least 8 months * Married, cohabiting or single parent * At least one child between 1-5 - 18 years * German speaking Exclusion Criteria: * The diagnosis is more than 1 year ago * Diagnosed patients (parent) not living with their children * Diagnosed patients without custody of their children
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