Improving intra-family support during paediatric bone marrow transplantation: a randomised controlled exploratory study of videotelephony

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12606000312549

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 support during paediatric bone marrow transplantation at a metropolitan hospital

Interventions

Access to usual support plus intra-family communication, and social worker support and counselling via videotelephone for the duration of transplant related hospitalisation. Information will be collected from parents for the duration of transplant related hospitalisation 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 requiring bone marrow transplantation.

Exclusion criteria

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

Outcome results