Regular symptom check-ins by app for children with cancer
Tests an app for children with cancer to report symptoms regularly.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- Where
- Toronto, CanadaSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Three Times Weekly Symptom Screening for Children With Cancer
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 30 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Aug 2025
- Planned end
- 29 Nov 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- SPARK
- Record updated
- 15 May 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for children aged 2 to 18 with cancer, newly diagnosed or relapsed, who have had or will have chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery. They report symptoms three times a week for 8 weeks.
- Age
- 2 to 18 years at enrollment
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Cancer, newly diagnosed or relapsed
- Earlier treatment
- The child has received or is planned to receive chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery
Main reasons for not taking part
- Cognitive disability
- Visual impairment (cannot see SPARK even with corrective lens)
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- cancer diagnosis
- 2-18 years of age at enrollment
- Child has received or a plan for any chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery
- Understands English, French or Spanish
Who cannot take part
- Visual impairment (cannot see SPARK even with corrective lens)
- Cognitive disability
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 2 and 18 years old?
Where in Canada
- The Hospital for Sick ChildrenToronto, CanadaContact: Dr. Lillian SungNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This study will evaluate the feasibility of three times weekly symptom reporting by children using the SPARK platform for 8 weeks. SPARK is a web-based application that promotes symptom screening for children receiving cancer therapies and enables access to clinical practice guidelines for symptom management. Newly diagnosed and relapsed patients with cancer will be enrolled. Children and/or their guardian will be prompted to complete symptom screening three times weekly via SPARK with corresponding feedback sent to their healthcare providers with each completed assessment. Symptom reports will contain links to clinical practice guidelines for symptom management. Active intervention will last for 8 weeks starting from the date of enrollment.
The group in the trial
- Three times weekly symptom screeningTreatment being tested
Three times weekly symptom reporting by guardians and children using the SPARK platform for 8 weeks
Treatment: SPARK
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- A Feasibility Study of Three Times Weekly Symptom Screening for Children With Cancer
- Plain-language title
- Regular symptom check-ins by app for children with cancerGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT04275102, who can take part
- Record updated
- 15 May 2025