NCT03631485

Exploring the Mental Health of Parents Having Children With Cancer

Completed Last updated 30 May 2019

What this trial tests

trial testing Exposure_having children with cancer in Resilience of Parents Having Children With Cancer in 181 participants. Completed in 27 November 2018.

Timeline

27 August 2018

Primary endpoint
27 November 2018

27 November 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The University of Hong Kong
Status	Completed
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	181
Start date	27 August 2018
Primary completion	27 November 2018
Estimated completion	27 November 2018
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• Exposure_having children with cancer

Conditions studied

• Resilience of Parents Having Children With Cancer — all drugs for Resilience of Parents Having Children With Cancer →

Sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Resilience of Parents Having Children With Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Caring for children with cancer is described as life-changing experience and overwhelming stress for parents. Poor quality of life and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety were found in this population. The psychological status of them is still waited to be improved. As a dominant term in positive psychology, resilience is commonly regarded as the ability to move forward or keep normal under adversity. It was proved to be associated with psychological outcomes in adolescents and chronic illness patients, enhanced resilience usually along with improved mental health, while little evidence was available in the parents of children with cancer.

A cross-sectional study will be conducted to explore the level of resilience and psychological outcomes such as quality of life, depression, anxiety and well-being in parents of children with cancer using questionnaires. Such results will be compared with normal population to help evaluate the psychological status of those parents. The relationship between resilience and these psychological outcomes will also be examined. Lower resilience and higher resilience of the parents will be determined by the lowest and highest quartile of The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) scores. Subsequently, a qualitative study will be conducted to explore the experience of those parents with lower resilience and higher resilience.

It is anticipated that risk parents of children with cancer could be identified from the inferior outcomes of resilience and psychological outcomes. Both the results of cross-sectional study and qualitative study will guide the development of interventions designed to enhance resilience and promote positive psychological outcomes among targeted parents of children with cancer under risk.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. The Lived Experience of Resilience in Parents of Children With Cancer: A Phenomenological Study.
   Luo Y, Li HCW, Xia W, Cheung AT, et al · · 2022 · cited 11× · PMID 35707743 · DOI 10.3389/fped.2022.871435
2. Relationships between resilience and quality of life in parents of children with cancer.
   Luo YH, Li WHC, Cheung AT, Ho LLK, et al · · 2022 · cited 11× · PMID 33522296 · DOI 10.1177/1359105321990806