Patients At Risk for Sensory Screening (HPARSS) to Enhance Sensory Deficit Screening in Childhood Cancer Survivors

The Washington University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Childhood Cancer

Treatments: Other: Highlighting Patients at Risk for Sensory Screening (HPARSS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05582551

202208066

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall goal of this study is to attempt to overcome the organizational barriers that impede prompt screening for at-risk sensory deficits in childhood cancer survivors (CCS). Using a cross sectional design study, collaborators in the Informatics Research branch of the Institute of Informatics at the Washington University School of Medicine will identify CCS at risk for sensory deficits based upon their therapy exposure to generate the highlighting patients at risk for sensory screening (HPARSS) document. The investigators will utilize the HPARSS that will link therapy related risks for sensory deficits to specific screening procedures prompting the primary oncology provider to implement screening, diagnostic testing, and therapy.

Enrollment: 146 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a diagnosis of pediatric cancer (diagnosis at <18 years of age)
• Treatment including chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy
• Completion of all cancer therapy for at least 6 months and less than 2 years
• Followed in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program at the Washington University School of Medicine
• Current age between 7 and 17 years of age (age where all of the screening tests are both valid and have been successfully performed by our group)
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Undergoing active cancer treatment
• Patient under the care of the Late Effects Program at St. Louis Children's Hospital
• Received previous diagnostic testing or rehabilitative therapy for a secondary deficit eligible for screening.
• Parents and/or patient illiteracy
• No contact with treatment team in the past two years
• In foster care or without a legal guardian

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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146 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients: Highlighting Patients at Risk for Sensory Screening (HPARSS)

Experimental group

Description:

* The primary oncology team will utilize the HPARSS to identify patients who are at risk for sensory deficits based on prior treatment. The HPARSS will constitute a file of that will contain eligible patients based upon their past treatment and their corresponding risk for a particular sensory deficit based upon that treatment. The patient and parent/guardian will be approached to participate in the study. * Sensory deficit screening will be completed in the clinic and any screening results that indicate the need for referral for diagnostic testing or therapy will be scheduled by the primary treatment team staff.

Treatment:

Other: Highlighting Patients at Risk for Sensory Screening (HPARSS)

Providers: Highlighting Patients at Risk for Sensory Screening (HPARSS)

No Intervention group

Description:

-Providers will complete a survey regarding their views of the HPARSS. The Acceptability of Intervention Measure has 4 questions and the Feasibility of Intervention Measure has 4 questions.