Clinical trial · Interventional
Home Visit Intervention in Pediatric Palliative Care
Palliative Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Children With Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- 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 randomized controlled trial to compare the quality of life between participants who were given palliative care (a 3-month home visit) and those who were not (intervention vs control group) was conducted. Participants consisted of children with cancer aged 2-18 years old. A two-way communication between a trained health worker and participants with or without their parents were conducted as the intervention (report by proxy or self-report). Interventions were given in 6 sessions (1 session every 2 weeks) focusing on problems solving education, symptoms management, self-care, communication, decision making, and long-term care plan assistance. In the first and twelfth week of the intervention, all participants were assessed with the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQLTM) questionnaire cancer module 3.0. Symptomps intensityof anorexia, sleep diturbance, and pain will be asessed in each visit. Participants were followed, Emergency Room (ER) admissions were recorded during follow up period. During the follow up period, ER admissions were recorded further.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palliative | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Pediatric Cancer | Childhood Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palliative home visit | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- description
- No palliative home visit intervention
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention
- description
- Palliative home visit intervention
- interventionNames
- Other: Palliative home visit
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Quality of life cancer child
- timeFrame
- at the end of 3 months follow up
- description
- Measured using PedsQLTM cancer module 3.0 that consisted of eight dimension. Each dimension consisted of several items to be answered. Item scaling was answered in 5-point Likert scale from 0 (Never) to 4 (Almost always). Scores are transformed to a 0 to 100 scale. Items are reversed scored and linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale as follows: 0=100, 1=75, 2=50, 3=25, 4=0. If more than 50% of the items in the scale are missing, the scale scores should not be computed. Mean score = Sum of the items over the number of items answered. Total score is acquired by summing of all the items over the number of items answered on all the Scales.Higher scores indicate lower problems.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 2 Years
- Maximum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Child age 2-18 years old with malignancies who undergo treatments at the Department of Child Health of Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, during the study period. * All participants who meet the criteria to get palliative care, participants with a total score ≥ 4 based on palliative screening form. * Participants and or parents agree to be enrolled in study Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who live outside Jakarta and therefore unreachable to get palliative intervention
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