NCT06786104Recruiting
Video Inspired Discussions About Ethical Outcomes in Pediatrics
A Multisite RWCT Comparing the Effectiveness of a Goals of Care Video and Navigator Intervention, the VIDEO-PEDS Experience, Versus Usual Care in Pediatric Cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the VIDEO-PEDS intervention works to improve Goals of Care communication between clinicians and parents of children with cancer. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does the intervention improve Goals of Care documentation? Does it improve patient outcomes (including less invasive preferences for resuscitation and interventions, less hospital utilization, and more palliative care and hospice use)? Does it improve parent outcomes (including health satisfaction and feeling heard and understood per survey scores)?
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 567 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 7 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 5 May 2026
- Primary completion date
- 15 Jan 2030
- Lead sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT06786104
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 567
- From 5 May 2026 to the primary completion date, 15 Jan 2030
- 4 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Not receiving primary medical care from the cancer clinic (e.g., second-opinion consultations only)
Other
- Patient
- Already referred to and fully consulted by the palliative care team
- Prognosis of less than a 2-month life expectancy
- Parent
- Visually impaired beyond 20/200 corrected and unable to view the video (note: hearing impaired is not an exclusion as the videos are closed captioned).
- Psychological state not appropriate for GOC discussions, as determined by the primary oncologist per the opt-out.
- Participants who do not speak English or Spanish
Who the study is looking for
- Patient
- Age 0-12 years
- Diagnosed with any type or stage of cancer
- Receiving cancer directed treatment
- Parent
- Decision maker for the child.
- Biological parent, step-parent, legal guardian (e.g., adoptive parent), or grandparent with medical consent authority.
- Has a child meeting the child inclusion criteria listed above.
- Able to communicate in English or Spanish (the languages of the video decision aids).
Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital of Atlanta Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Recruiting |
| Children's of Alabama at Birmingham Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Recruiting |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
| Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lebanon | United States | Active, not recruiting |
This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.