Can Making Video Narratives Benefit Adolescents With Cancer

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Pediatric Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: PedsQL; Behavioral: Video narrative; Behavioral: Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) Verbal Fluency Test; Behavioral: The Cognitive Log; Behavioral: Ten Item Personality Inventory

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03127254

CASE12Z16

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn more about the content of and benefits of making video testimonials in adolescents with cancer.

Full description

The current research aims to:

A. enlist teens with cancer to produce video narratives about their experiences with their illness B. explicitly characterize and investigate the videos' content and C. determine what aspects of the production were helpful to the teen making them and predicted to be helpful to those watching them.

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with cancer
• Patients receiving cancer treatment for the first time
• Can complete study before high school graduation
• Must be able to read and understand English

Exclusion criteria

• Participants cannot have been treated for other chronic illnesses prior to cancer diagnosis
• Patients with cognitive and.or verbal capacities impaired to the point where they cannot consent or assent for themselves
• Patients who cannot communicate narratives clearly due to cognitive and/or verbal impairments

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Video Narrative with surveys

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be asked to create a 10-15 minute video narrative on their experiences after being diagnosed with cancer. Participants will also be asked to complete surveys including pediatric quality of life (PedsQL), Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) Verbal Fluency Test, and The Cognitive Log (Cog-Log)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ten Item Personality Inventory

Behavioral: The Cognitive Log

Behavioral: Video narrative

Behavioral: Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) Verbal Fluency Test

Behavioral: PedsQL