Child and adolescent psychotherapy and psychiatry, psycho-oncology Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
A manualised child-focused preventive counselling program consisting of
1. Evaluation of parent(s)
2. Evaluation of child or children
3. A maximum of six individually customised and focused sessions
Sponsors
German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V.) (Germany)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Wishing/seeking support 2. At least one parent has cancer 3. At least one child between 0-21 years
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Neither parent has cancer (e. g. other chronic diseases) 2. No informed consent for study participation (the program is provided without study participation) 3. At least one parent has psychotic symptoms or a psychotic mental disorder (ICD-10 or DSM-IV) 4. Acute endangerment of child to self or others 5. Insufficient German language abilities 6. Insufficient mobility of ill parent (the program is then offered to other family members)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Children?s health-related quality of life with Kid-Screen (8-18 years) rated from children?s and parents? view. 2. Children?s behavioural and emotional problems measured with Child Behaviour Checklist (1,5-5/ 6-18 years) rated from parents? view and Youth Self Report (11-18 years) rated from children?s view | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Parents? self-rated anxiety and depression measured with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) 2. Family Assessment Device (FAD) to measure familial functioning from parents? perspective 3. Family Crisis-Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales (F-COPES) to measure familial coping behaviour in crisis situations 4. Freiburg Questionnaire of Coping with Illness (FKV) to measure parental coping with illness 5. Health Survey (SF-8) to measure parental quality of life 6. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to measure children?s and adolescents (exposure through children?s self-rating and additionally parents? view 7. Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-Risc) to measure six different resilience factors 8. Kid-Cope (13-18 years) to measure children?s and adolescent?s cognitive and behavioural coping with parents? cancer disease 9. Ad hoc developed intervention program rating scales to evaluate specific intervention contents and satisfaction with intervention; ratings from parents?, children?s (over 11 years) and counsellors? viewpoint | — |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed