Parent Tube Weaning Interviews

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Remote Patient Monitoring; Feeding Difficulties; Pediatric Feeding Disorders

Treatments: Other: Qualitative Research Interview

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07054983

STUDY00003570

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent developments in remote monitoring software can provide a proactive means for data transfer for healthcare teams to communicate with families regarding activities like weaning from feeding tubes. Children's Mercy began utilizing a mHealth technology - CHAMP App® - for tube weaning in the Fall of 2023. Research gaps remain in this population, including comparing the experiences of families who could wean with methods available prior to the innovative use of a medical team collaborating with mHealth technology. This will be a single site study with one-time naturalistic, semi-structured parent interviews of children who have attempted tube weaning in their homes with two different models of care (standard ambulatory tube weaning and with the CHAMP App pilot).

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults that are at least 18 years of age that are parent(s) of children with pediatric feeding disorder who have been seen in the Children's Mercy Interdisciplinary Feeding Clinic.
• Parent/Legal Guardian of a child < 6 years of age when they attempted tube weaning
• Pediatric patients that have attempted a tube wean in the last 3 years (2022-2025) with the Interdisciplinary Feeding Clinic through either standard of care or through utilization of the CHAMP App

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English-speaking parent(s)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Parents of children who attempted tube weaning

Other group

Description:

Qualitative interviews of parents of pediatric patients who have previously attempted tube weaning via standard of care or using CHAMP App

Treatment:

Other: Qualitative Research Interview