Survey in a Population of Sickle Cell Disease Patients to Evaluate the Transition Between the Queen Fabiola Children Hospital and the CHU Brugmann Hospital, and the Quality of the Hospital Care Within the CHU Brugmann Hospital.

Sickle cell disease is a genetic disease responsible for an abnormal hemoglobin.The anomaly has several consequences: a low hemoglobin rate (chronic anemia), plugs formed by red blood cells in blood vessels (extremely painful vaso-occlusive crises) and greater susceptibility to infections.

Patients with this disease should be monitored medically continuously from birth. At adulthood, they will pass from a pediatric medical care system to an adult medical care system.This transition can be experienced with more or less ease, depending on the organization within the pediatric and adult hospitals.

This questionnaire aims to assess the quality of the transition between pediatric and adult services.The investigators want to better estimate hospital work and improve the quality of care for this type of patients, throughout their entire medical history.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sickle Cell Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Survey

Detailed Description

Sickle cell disease is a genetic disease responsible for an abnormal hemoglobin. It particularly affects populations with an African ascent (300 000 African children are born every year with this genetic anomaly).

The anomaly has several consequences: a low hemoglobin rate (chronic anemia), plugs formed by red blood cells in blood vessels (extremely painful vaso-occlusive crises) and greater susceptibility to infections.

The severity of sickle cell disease is variable among children. Some develop frequent and serious complications, while others don't. A child with sickle cell disease is hospitalized about a week a year in average (for a painful crisis, infection or worsening of anemia).

Patients with this disease should be monitored medically continuously from birth. At adulthood, they will pass from a pediatric medical care system to an adult medical care system.This transition can be experienced with more or less ease, depending on the organization within the pediatric and adult hospitals.

This questionnaire aims to assess the quality of the transition between pediatric and adult services.The investigators want to better estimate hospital work and improve the quality of care for this type of patients throughout their entire medical history.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Brussels, Belgium, 1020
    • CHU Brugmann

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Sickle cell disease patients, beeing admitted in the CHU Brugmann Hospital (Horta site) after having been followed in the Queen Fabiola Children Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Patients with sicke cell disease; Adult sickle cell disease patients will fill in a survey about the quality of their hospital care, in the transition period between the pediatric to an adult hospital care system. Since filling in this survey is not part of the standard of care, this study has been defined as interventional.	Other: Survey

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Factors impacting the quality of transition between the pediatric and adult care system	The factors will be evaluated with a survey (questionnaire to be filled in)	1 day at the first scheduled hospital visit within the CHU Brugmann (according to standard of care for adults)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Brugmann University Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Marie-Agnès Azerad, MD, CHU Brugmann

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 17, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 17, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): November 18, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 12, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 11, 2018
• Last Verified: July 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: sickle cell disease; pediatric hospital care; adult hospital care
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Hematologic Diseases; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Anemia; Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital; Anemia, Hemolytic; Hemoglobinopathies; Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHUB-Transition

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No