Parent-Delivered Massage in Paediatric Cancer

Titre officiel

Parent-Delivered Massage in Paediatric Cancer

Sommaire:

Cette étude vise à déterminer la satisfaction des parents d’enfants atteints du cancer à l’égard d’un programme de formation en massothérapie à l’intention des parents et à connaître leur point de vue en ce qui concerne la simplicité d’utilisation des techniques de massage. Elle a également pour but de déterminer si le massage d’un enfant atteint du cancer par un parent permet de réduire l’anxiété et la dépression chez l’enfant et le stress chez le parent.

Description de l'essai

Primary Outcome:

• To test the feasibility of the educational intervention in parent-delivered massage for children undergoing treatment for cancer at a paediatric oncology centre, to guide sample size estimation for a future randomized trial.

Secondary Outcome:

• My Story
• Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale
• Pediatric Inventory for Parents
• Stait-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults
• The Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale
• State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children
• Parent Journals
• Child Journals

In Canadian children aged 0-19, the number of new cancer cases from 1997-2001 was on average 1,285 children per year for a total of 6,427 children over a five year period. Individual and family responses to a child's or adolescent's cancer diagnosis and treatment include psychological, sociocultural and biological dimensions. Parents of children with cancer can experience severe emotional distress including anxiety and depression. Parents require support and skills to reduce their own anxiety and distress and to help alleviate suffering in their children. This is a two-phase research project: phase I: development of a standardized educational intervention on video/DVD to teach parents how to massage their child with cancer; phase II: test the feasibility of the developed intervention with children with cancer and their parents. A total of 24 parents and their children with cancer who are under the care of the paediatric oncology units at the Stollery Children's Hospital (Edmonton) will be recruited for the study. It is hypothesized that this research on an educational program in parent-delivered massage therapy will directly improve the lives of children with cancer and their parents.

Voir cet essai sur ClinicalTrials.gov