NCT04446728Active, not recruiting
Implementation of Family Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatric Cancer
Implementation of Family Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatric Cancer With The Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The diagnosis and treatment of pediatric cancer adversely affects multiple levels of the social ecology, including patient and caregiver physical and psychosocial health. It is the strong recommendation from the first Standard of the Psychosocial Standards of Care in Pediatric Cancer that cancer centers engage in universal, systematic, psychosocial risk screening for newly diagnosed patients and their families. Universal screening at diagnosis fosters early identification of psychosocial risks and provides the opportunity to match psychosocial care to the level of family need for more equitable, effective and integrated services. However, few programs offer such care in an efficient, comprehensive, and consistent manner, potentially resulting in insufficient care that magnifies inequities in outcomes. To support pediatric cancer centers in their goal of meeting the first Standard of Psychosocial Care, this study will compare two implementation strategies for the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT), a validated parent report screener of family psychosocial risk in English and Spanish, in a cluster randomized trial across 18 pediatric cancer programs in the United States.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 18 (actual)
- First submitted
- 2 Jun 2020
- Start date
- 1 Jan 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Nemours Children's Clinic
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT04446728
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 18
- From 1 Jan 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- \- Sites with psychosocial staffing below the median in the prior study were not eligible.
Who the study is looking for
- Sites were selected in advance based on data collected in a previous study regarding psychosocial staffing in the pediatric cancer program.
- Sites that were at or above the median for size of their psychosocial staff were eligible. - --
- Site selection took into consideration number of new pediatric cancer patients annually, geographical representation and sites with significant proportions of Spanish speaking families and/or families of low socioeconomic status.
Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nemours Children's Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wilmington | United States | Unknown status |
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