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"My child has cancer": The typology of psychological burden and its psychometric identification in parents of adolescent and young adult cancer patients

"My child has cancer": The typology of psychological burden and its psychometric identification in parents of adolescent and young adult cancer patients - AYA-PARENTS Profiler

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00014976
Enrollment
82
Registered
2019-11-18
Start date
2019-05-27
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-04-07

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Conditions

psychological distress C81-C96

Interventions

Group 1: Retrospective qualitative analysis of interview transcriptions of parents of AYA patients and quantiative survey ot these parents using questionnaire data.

Sponsors

Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Klinik für Hämatologie und Onkologie
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 40 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1) parents of AYA patients with hematologic malignant neoplasms who participated in the intervention group of the "AYA-PARENTS" study (inclusion criteria: a. acute / chronic hematologic malignant disease (ICD-10-C-diagnoses) AND / OR b. ambulatory / stationary treatment c. ECOG performance status = 2 d. AYA patients age 18-40 years e. sufficient command of the German language f. sufficient cognitive ability to understand diagnosis and treatment g. written and oral information to the intervention study h. written consent 2) participation at t0 (basis documentation before randomization) and t1 (baseline measurement with first questionnaires) of the "AYA-PARENTS" study 3) participation at least at one intervention session of the "AYA-PARENTS" study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: none, if included in "AYA-PARENTS"

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Retrospective determination of parental exposure profiles using qualitative evaluation methods (qualitative content analysis, grounded theory, ideal type formation)

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Validation of the parental exposure profiles with quantitative data for depression, distress, health related quality of life from the following questionnaires (postal survey since May 2019) a. Depression: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9, Gesundheitsfragebogen nach Löwe) b. Psychological distress: Distress-Thermometer (DT, Roth et al.) c. Anxiety: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) d. Fear of Progression: Progredienzangst-Fragebogen für Eltern krebskranker Kinder (PA-F-KF/E); Progredienzangst-Fragebogen für chronisch kranke Erwachsene (PA-F-KF) e. Cancer specific posttraumatic stress: Fragebogen zur krebsspezifischen posttraumatischen Belastung (PTB-KS, Bölter et al.) f. Health related quality of life: MOS-36 Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) Can we identify risk cases and constellations based on the parental exposure profiles even if the psychological condition of the parents or the AYA patients is not yet showing psychopathological abnormities according to a cut-off based determination of prevalence?

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactMichael Köhler

Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Klinik für Hämatologie und Onkologie

info@aya-parents.de0391-67-13307

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026