Actively Recruiting

Phase Not Applicable
Age: 0 - 18Years
All Genders
NCT05306509

Nurse-initiated Conversations for Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology

Led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University · Updated on 2026-03-19

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Participants Needed

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Research Sites

208 weeks

Total Duration

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AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

This study aims to develop and implement a pediatric palliative care (PPC) program. It is an open-label, randomized trial (2:1 randomization) in pediatric oncology department of Children's Hospital of Fudan University. The intervention group will receive Nurse-initiated Conversations for Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology (NiCE). The control group will receive routine PPC (will be scheduled to meet with the PPC team only when participants themselves, their families, or the attending oncologist requested an appointment). The intervention will take 6 months.

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Nurse-initiated Conversations for Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology

Who Can Participate

Age: 0 - 18Years
All Genders

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Children within eight weeks of initial oncologic diagnosis or within eight weeks of relapse/recurrent disease diagnosis
  • Children speaking Chinese
  • Children's family caregivers accompanying the child in the hospital (only one family member is eligible to take this role under current hospital policy)
  • Children's family caregivers speaking Chinese
  • Health care providers who are taking care of the eligible children, including but not limited to physicians, nurses, and social workers
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Children who, in the opinion of their physician, are not capable mentally or verbally of participating in the survey or interview

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 1 location

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Hemotology/Oncology Unit and Surgical Oncology Unit of Children's Hospital of Fudan University

Shanghai, Minhang, China, 201102

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Research Team

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Lei Cheng, PhD

CONTACT

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Xiaowen Zhai, MD

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How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

NONE

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Number of Arms

2

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