Home Visit Intervention in Pediatric Palliative Care

University of Indonesia (UI)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Palliative

Pediatric Cancer

Treatments

Other: Palliative home visit

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04067687

PedPalliative01

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

2 to 18 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

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