Improving paediatric palliative care for rural and remote families: a randomised controlled exploratory study of videotelephony

Status

Terminated

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12606000311550

Enrollment

Registered

2006-07-20

Start date

2006-08-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

To determine whether videotelephony is an effective means of improving the support provided to regional and remote families receiving paediatric oncology palliative care from a metropolitan hospital

Interventions

Access to usual support plus education, communication, counselling and monitoring with specialist multidisciplinary team members via videotelephone for the duration of palliative care. Information will be collected for the duration of palliation to a maximum of 6 months

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Single group

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

2 Years to 18 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Paediatric oncology patients aged 2-18 years from regional and remote areas requiring palliative care.

Exclusion criteria

Patients were a home telephone connection of satisfactory quailty can not be installed.

Outcome results