Communication Memory of Cancer Diagnosis Within the Pediatric Triangle

  • STATUS
    Recruiting
  • participants needed
    70
  • sponsor
    Meyer Children's Hospital
Updated on 19 February 2024

Summary

Present project aims to investigate memories related to a cancer communication diagnosis in pediatric oncology. It evaluates possible common elements and specificity between family and healthcare staff.

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Lots of scientific evidences have shown that autobiographical episodes' narrative has a beneficial effect on the elaboration of memories. Indeed, narrating is a way to order thoughts and moods, which are connected to particular episodes of one's life, in order to rework and relive them. Since the diagnosis, a relationship and an open and sincere dialogue between the various parts of the pediatric triangle can promote a process of adaptation to the experience of illness and an integrated biopsychosocial healing. The first aim of this study is to explore and analyze autobiographical memories of pediatric patients, parents and healthcare staff. Also, it aims to investigate possible common and discordant element between deposition.

Phases of the present study:

  1. Sample recruitment and informed consent collection.
  2. Diagnosis communication audio recording.
  3. Communication of the autobiographical memory of the diagnosis audio recording of patients, parents, oncologist, nurse and psychologists involved, the day after the communication.
  4. Questionnaire APAM administration for adult participants.
  5. Audio Transcription and data coded. Data will be registered and operated by means of statistical software as SPSS (IBM) and T-Lab (Lancia, 2004).
  6. Statistical processing: ANOVA and t of Student tests will be implemented in order to compare collected questionnaires. Narrative analysis will be implemented by means of textual analysis software.

Details
Condition Memory
Age 12-100 years
Treatment Communication memory
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT04392908
SponsorMeyer Children's Hospital
Last Modified on19 February 2024

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Italian speaking and signature informed consent

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