Study to Education Childhood Cancer Survivors About Survivorship Care (SPEAC)

Childhood Cancer Survivor Program to Empower Action in Care

The proposed study is part of a career development award. The first two phases of research involve collaborating with adult survivors of childhood cancer representing both sexes and three ethnic/racial groups (African American, Hispanic, and White). THe collaboration will focus upon developing educational material that is helpful in teaching survivors about health risks related to cancer treatments and about survivorship care. The third phase is a randomized controlled trial that will randomly (like a flip of coin)place survivors into one of two groups. One group will meet in -person with a group leader three times, once each week over three weeks. The other group will receive an information packet that contains websites, books, and resources similar to content provided in-person within a group format to the other group. The goal is to help adult survivors get involved in specialized healthcare so they can remain healthy. This involves getting a copy of their medical record to understand what treatments they received and working with health providers to get an individualized survivorship care plan.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Childhood Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Education and empowerment

Detailed Description

The proposed study includes three aims: intervention development using focus groups, intervention refinement based upon a pre-pilot, and a randomized controlled pilot study of the final intervention. All participants are adult survivors of childhood cancer, males and females from three ethnic backgrounds (Black, Hispanic, White). The randomized control pilot is designed to assess the acceptibility/feasibility of a community-based intervention to engage childhood cancer survivors more actively in cancer follow-up care. Pilot data on outcome measures will provide data parameters (e.g. means and variances of groups) for accurate power analyses and sample size calculation to support a subsequent efficacy trial.

Relevance: This project is a critical initial step towards addressing systemic problems in transition of care and has the potential to decrease morbidity of adult childhood cancer survivors.

Outcomes include: knowledge of late effects and follow-up care, uncertainty related to 1) relapse, 2) secondary cancers, and 3) late effects, perceived efficacy to communicate with physician, access to childhood medical records, self-efficacy to obtain medical records, and the number of completed health care visits at a six month follow-up interview.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60608
      • University of Illinois at Chicago

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosed with any childhood cancer excluding CNS prior to age of 18 years
• Completed treatment at least 5 years ago
• Currently cancer free and 18 years or older
• Self-identifies as African American, Hispanic/Latino, or White

Exclusion Criteria:

• Ever seen for risk-based follow-up care as an adult (18 or older)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Education and empowerment program; Three group sessions delivered once per week over three weeks. Education on late effects of treatment, survivorship care, how to request medical records, and role playing on how to talk to a provider about childhood cancer health risks	Behavioral: Education and empowerment; Three group sessions delivered once per week over three weeks. Education on late effects of treatment, survivorship care, how to request medical records, and role playing on how to talk to a provider about childhood cancer health risks
Placebo Comparator: self-guided empowerment and education; participants have information packet but receive no individualized support or assistance	Behavioral: Education and empowerment; Three group sessions delivered once per week over three weeks. Education on late effects of treatment, survivorship care, how to request medical records, and role playing on how to talk to a provider about childhood cancer health risks

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
scheduling a survivorship visit	Patient report of setting up an appointment at one of the three long-term follow-up clinics in Chicago or setting up an appointment with a physician who is working on a survivorship plan with the patient.	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
requesting and obtaining medical records from pediatric oncology	Filling out a medical record request form and submitting the form to the pediatric oncology hospital. This may be done by the survivor or the physician.	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: August 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2011
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 3, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 4, 2012
• First Posted (Estimate): December 5, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): May 11, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 10, 2016
• Last Verified: May 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: childhood cancer survivors; health communication; long-term follow-up care; ethnic/racial minorities; longterm survivors
• Other Study ID Numbers: K23CA124451 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)