Clinical trial · Interventional
Enabling Symptom Identification and Tracking in Children Receiving Cancer Treatment
Refinement and Early Evaluation of SPARK, an Approach to Enable Symptom Screening and Monitoring by Children Receiving Cancer Treatments
- 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 cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients suffer from severe and bothersome symptoms because treatments are intense. So, the investigators developed SPARK (Supportive care Prioritization, Assessment and Recommendations for Kids), a website devoted to helping children track symptoms and providing a way to let doctors and nurses know which symptoms are bothersome. This study will examine the likelihood that children will complete SPARK once daily, help the investigators figure out how to improve the website so that children will use it, and help the investigators plan the large scale trial to test its efficacy in improving quality of life (QoL). Participants will be children with cancer or HSCT recipients who are 8-18 years of age and who are expected to be in hospital or in clinic daily for 5 days.To determine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of symptom feedback to healthcare providers
Conditions
Conditions (3)
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 |
| Quality of Life | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Symptom Screening | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard of care | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Symptom feedback to Health Care Provider | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Symptom feedback to Health Care Provider
- description
- For those randomized to the intervention arm, symptom screening using SPARK will be completed once daily for 5 days on an iPad using the approach refined in aim 2. Daily SSPedi reports will be printed and provided in the patient chart. On days 1 and 3±1, a report describing symptoms that are "a lot" or "extremely" bothersome will be emailed to the physician providing direct medical care
- interventionNames
- Other: Symptom feedback to Health Care Provider
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Standard of care
- description
- For those randomized to the control arm, a clinical research associate will visit the participant on days 1 and 5±1 and will obtain SSPedi scores on an iPad. Reports will not be printed or emailed to the physician.
- interventionNames
- Other: Standard of care
Primary outcomes (1)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 8 Years
- Maximum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * We will include children with cancer and HSCT recipients who are 8-18 years of age at enrollment and who can understand English. * Participants may be inpatients or outpatients, and may be actively receiving cancer treatment or may have completed treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Exclusion criteria will be illness severity, cognitive disability, or visual impairment that precludes utilization of SPARK according to the healthcare team.
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