Clinical trial · Interventional
Parent Educational Discharge Support Strategies
Nurse-Led Parent Educational Discharge Support Strategies (PEDSS) for Children Newly Diagnosed With Cancer
- 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)
After the initial hospitalization, parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer assume responsibility for assessing and managing their care; however, parents are often overwhelmed with information received throughout the hospitalization and are apprehensive about caring for their child at home. Parents want concise, focused information on how to care for their child after the hospital discharge. Two parent education discharge support strategies (PEDSS) were created to use at hospital discharge. PEDSS consists of a symptom management intervention and a support for the caregiver intervention. A cluster randomized control trial will assess the effectiveness and feasibility of the two different interventions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Activities | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEDSS - support for the caregiver | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| PEDSS - symptom management | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- PEDSS - symptom management
- description
- Content for the PEDSS - symptom management includes the most commonly experienced treatment-related physical symptoms, descriptions of each symptom, strategies to reduce symptom distress, and when and how to contact the cancer care team.
- interventionNames
- Other: PEDSS - symptom management
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- PEDSS - support for the caregiver
- description
- Content for the PEDSS - support for the caregiver includes five topics and suggestions on how caregivers can care for themselves during this time.
- interventionNames
- Other: PEDSS - support for the caregiver
Primary outcomes (6)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 3 Years
- Maximum age
- 17 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * A parent (referred to as "parent" but includes a parent or legal guardian) of a patient 3 to 17 years of age who is newly diagnosed with any type of malignant disease on an inpatient oncology unit * Must speak English, Spanish, or Arabic * Child will be or is receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy Exclusion Criteria: * A parent of a child diagnosed with histiocytosis or any hematological disease considered non-malignant * A parent whose child received the initial cancer diagnosis and initial cancer treatment while hospitalized on a non-oncology unit (i.e., surgical ward) * A parent of a child who is experienced a relapse of a malignant disease * A parent who is the primary caregiver of the child with cancer and is illiterate
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