Spiritual Health Scale in Chinese Pediatric Cancer Patients

NCT05371236 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: SPH
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Pediatric cancer patients experience spiritual concerns such as meaningless, hopeless of life, fear of death and losses at all stages of illness. The availability of a valid and reliable instrument that accurately assesses the level of spiritual health among pediatric cancer patients is crucial before any appropriate interventions to solve their spiritual concerns can be appropriately planned and evaluated.

Conditions

Child

Keywords

cancer; spiritual health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• The adapted spiritual well-being scale of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-12 (FACIT-Sp-12) for pediatric cancer patients

  For measuring participants' spiritual well-being

  past senven days

• The Chinese version of the center for epidemiology studies depression scale for children (CES-DC)

  For measuring participants' depressive symptoms

  past seven days

• Pediatric quality of life inventory 3.0 cancer module (PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module)

  For measuring participants' quality of life

  past seven days

• Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics

  For collecting the background information of the participants, including their age, gender, educational attainment, household income, number of siblings, parents' marital status and religious belief. In addition, participants' medical records will be retrieved to acquire their diagnosis.

  on that day filling out questionnaire

Interventions

Questionnaire OTHER

Phase I will use a descriptive qualitative approach to understand pediatric cancer patients' opinions related with spiritual issues and experience. The results of the qualitative study will be used to compare with the items of the original scale, and emerging themes will be used to generate new items. Phase Ⅱ will translates the original scale and validates the psychological properties of scale adapted for pediatric cancer patients.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

children with cancer

You may qualify if:

• age 8-17 years old,
• diagnosed with any type of cancer who were treated at these sites at any point after their diagnosis,
• knowing about condition and prognosis of their disease,
• their parents agree to sign the informed consent form,
• able to communicate with Chinese and read Chinese.

You may not qualify if:

• younger than age 8-17 years old
• cancer survivors

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong, 0000, Hong Kong

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Ka Yan Ho, PhD

  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Ka Yan Ho, PhD

CONTACT

27666417; kyeva.ho@polyu.edu.hk

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 28, 2022
• First Posted: May 12, 2022
• Study Start: May 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2023
• Study Completion: March 1, 2023
• Last Updated: May 12, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

HK (1)