Clinical trial · Observational
RESPECT: (REsearching Stigma in PEdiatric Cancer Tool)
- 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)
Researchers want to learn more about the way stigma affects children with cancer and their caregivers. They want to develop two clinical tools to identify and measure stigma in the pediatric cancer population within culturally diverse global settings of the United States, Guatemala, and Jordan. Primary Objectives * Develop two clinical tools that can be used to identify and measure stigma as experienced by (1) pediatric oncology patients/survivors and (2) their guardians/caregivers in culturally diverse global settings. * Pilot new stigma tools in geographically and culturally diverse cancer referral settings in the United States, Guatemala, and Jordan.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stigma | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
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Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- label
- Pediatric oncology patients/survivors
- description
- Children who have or had cancer
- label
- Guardians/caregivers of pediatric oncology patients/survivors
- description
- Parents or caregivers of children who have or had cancer
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Develop two clinical tools that can be used to identify and measure stigma as experienced by (1) pediatric oncology patients/survivors and (2) their guardians/caregivers in culturally diverse global settings.
- timeFrame
- Up to 2 months after the start of study
- description
- Concept mapping, a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative group brainstorming and sorting with descriptive statistical analysis will be utilized to describe ideas and represent them graphically. Content expert participants, including members of the research team and global healthcare professionals, will generate novel items by answering prompts. Participants will sort the items into distinctive themes and conduct cluster analyses to create an initial concept map that improves understanding of stigma domains and will be asked to rate the importance and feasibility of each item. A panel of experts will review the item and domain sorts and ratings to remove confusing or duplicative items and produce final pilot tools containing patient-centered and clinically relevant items. Pragmatic design principles will be used to make the tools short and easy to use in a variety of settings.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 8 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Cognitive Debriefing and Pilot Data Collection - Patients/Survivors * Age 8 to 17.9 years of age * Active cancer patients or survivors of cancer * Cognitive Debriefing and Pilot Data Collection - Parent/Caregivers * Adult parents or caregivers (≥ 18 years of age) of active cancer patients or survivors of cancer. Exclusion Criteria: NA
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