Parent Tube Weaning Interviews

NCT07054983 | Enrolling By Invitation

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00003570
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 15
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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).

Conditions

Remote Patient Monitoring; Pediatric Feeding Disorders; Feeding Difficulties

Keywords

Pediatric; Tube Weaning

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Parental Perspective

  Explore the parental perspectives of the process of weaning from feeding tubes to all calories by mouth while in the home setting to identify preference for weaning via remote health monitoring.

  During the Tube weaning attempt, an average of 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Communication

  During the Tube weaning attempt, an average of 8 weeks

• Stress

  During the Tube weaning attempt, an average of 8 weeks

• Social Determinates of Health

  During the Tube weaning attempt, an average of 8 weeks

• Access

  During the Tube weaning attempt, an average of 8 weeks

Study Arms (1)

Parents of children who attempted tube weaning

OTHER

Qualitative interviews of parents of pediatric patients who have previously attempted tube weaning via the CHAMP App

Other: Qualitative Research Interview

Interventions

Qualitative Research Interview OTHER

Qualitative research interview of parents of pediatric patients seen in an interdisciplinary feeding clinic who underwent a tube weaning program

Parents of children who attempted tube weaning

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• Non-English-speaking parent(s)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City: lead
• The Gerber Foundation: collaborator
• Daisy Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Children's Mercy Hospital

Kansas City, Missouri, 64108, United States

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principle Investigator

Model Details: Interviews

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 4, 2025
• First Posted: July 8, 2025
• Study Start: July 30, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): October 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): October 1, 2026
• Last Updated: May 15, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)