Clinical trial · Interventional
Cancer Parenting Program for the Enhancement of the Quality of Life of Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Children
Enhancing Connections-Palliative Care: A Cancer Parenting Program for Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Children
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 26, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260926-000001
Why stopped (as posted): Enrollment rates to the trial were lower than projected and anticipated.
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This trial examines the usefulness of two educational programs for parents with late-stage cancer who have a 5 - 17 year old child. The programs are designed to enhance the quality of the parent-child relationship and add to the parent's confidence in managing the impact of their cancer on their child. Educational programs may reduce anxiety and depression and improve the well-being and quality of life of parents with advanced cancers and their children. Recruitment occurs nationally via referral to the Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium team.
Conditions
Conditions (7)
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 |
| Hematopoietic and Lymphoid System Neoplasm | Hematopoietic and Lymphatic System Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Malignant Solid Neoplasm | Malignant Solid Neoplasm | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.98 |
| Parent-Child Relation | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Parent-Child Relations | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Parenting | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Survivorship | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group 1: Educational counseling intervention | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Group II Active Comparator | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Behavioral: Group 1: Educational counseling Group I (enhancing connections-palliative care program)
- description
- Patients receive the 5-session EC-PC program bi-weekly with a patient educator about ways to help them talk to and support their child.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Group 1: Educational counseling intervention
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Group II (educational material)
- description
- Patients receive carefully selected educational booklet that discuss ways to talk about their cancer with their child and a scripted phone call from a trained phone counselor on study.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Group II Active Comparator
Primary outcomes (5)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 23 Years
- Maximum age
- 68 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Parents with any type of late-stage, non-curable cancer (determined by TNM stage IV cancer for solid tumors or 2 or more cycles of treatment failure with disease relapse in non-solid tumors) * All therapies are allowable * 23 years (yr.) to 68 yr. Age restriction exists for the patient based on parent having a child ages 5-17 * Patient must have a child (5yr. -17 yr.) living in the home at least 50% of the time and residential with non-ill parent or parent surrogate * Read and write English as one of their languages of choice * Have access to a telephone * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document. Read and write English as one of their languages of choice Exclusion Criteria: * Patient is in hospice at time of enrollment * Non-ill co-parent does not consent to join study
References
Publications (1)
- RESULTLewis FM, Griffith KA, Ganschow P, Gadi VK, Tercyak KP, Oxford M, Fukui J, Derry-Vick H, Manst D, Zahlis EH, Shands ME. Promoting Adjustment Among Families Impacted by Non-Curable, Advanced Stage Parental Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Enhancing Connections Palliative Care Program. J Palliat Med. 2026 Apr;29(4):443-452. doi: 10.1177/10966218251408290. Epub 2026 Jan 9. PMID 42169668