NCT05306509Recruiting
Nurse-initiated Conversations for Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology
Facilitating Early Integration of Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: Development and Implementation of a Nurse-initiated Conversation Program for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Their Families
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 120 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 20 Mar 2022
- Start date
- 1 Aug 2022
- Primary completion date
- 31 May 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Fudan University
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT05306509
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 120
- From 1 Aug 2022 to the primary completion date, 31 May 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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Other
- \- Children who, in the opinion of their physician, are not capable mentally or verbally of participating in the survey or interview
Who the study is looking for
- 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
Age in the registry: - to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemotology/Oncology Unit and Surgical Oncology Unit of Children's Hospital of Fudan University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Recruiting |
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