Child
Conditions
Keywords
cancer, spiritual health
Brief summary
Pediatric cancer patients experience spiritual concerns such as meaningless, hopeless of life, fear of death and losses at all stages of illness. The availability of a valid and reliable instrument that accurately assesses the level of spiritual health among pediatric cancer patients is crucial before any appropriate interventions to solve their spiritual concerns can be appropriately planned and evaluated.
Detailed description
The study aimed to adapt the 12-item Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-being Scale (FACIT-Sp-12) scale and validate it in Chinese pediatric cancer patients. A two-phase sequential method design will be used. Phase I will use a descriptive qualitative approach to understand pediatric cancer patients' opinions related with spiritual issues and experience. At least 12 participants are expected to be interviewed. The results of the qualitative study will be used to compare with the items of the original scale, and emerging themes will be used to generate new items. Phase Ⅱ will translates and adapt the scale based on the result of Phase I. Further, the adapted version of the scale will be validated among 200 pediatric cancer patients.
Interventions
OTHERQuestionnaire
Phase I will use a descriptive qualitative approach to understand pediatric cancer patients' opinions related with spiritual issues and experience. The results of the qualitative study will be used to compare with the items of the original scale, and emerging themes will be used to generate new items. Phase Ⅱ will translates the original scale and validates the psychological properties of scale adapted for pediatric cancer patients.
Sponsors
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
8 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* age 8-17 years old, * diagnosed with any type of cancer who were treated at these sites at any point after their diagnosis, * knowing about condition and prognosis of their disease, * their parents agree to sign the informed consent form, * able to communicate with Chinese and read Chinese.
Exclusion criteria
* younger than age 8-17 years old * cancer survivors
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The adapted spiritual well-being scale of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-12 (FACIT-Sp-12) for pediatric cancer patients | past senven days | For measuring participants' spiritual well-being |
| The Chinese version of the center for epidemiology studies depression scale for children (CES-DC) | past seven days | For measuring participants' depressive symptoms |
| Pediatric quality of life inventory 3.0 cancer module (PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module) | past seven days | For measuring participants' quality of life |
| Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics | on that day filling out questionnaire | For collecting the background information of the participants, including their age, gender, educational attainment, household income, number of siblings, parents' marital status and religious belief. In addition, participants' medical records will be retrieved to acquire their diagnosis. |
Countries
Hong Kong
Contacts
Primary ContactKa Yan Ho, PhD
Outcome results
None listed