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Psychological Benefits of Camping in Treating Children With Cancer

This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified by National Cancer Institute (NCI), November 2007

Sponsors and Collaborators: NCI - Center for Cancer Research-Medical Oncology
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00018915
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Children with cancer who go camping with other patients may have improved quality of life, self-esteem, and relationships with parents, family, and peers.

PURPOSE: Clinical trial to study the psychological benefits of a 1-week camping trip for children with cancer.


Condition Intervention
Cancer-Related Problem/Condition
Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care
Procedure: quality-of-life assessment

MedlinePlus related topics:   Cancer   

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:   Interventional
Study Design:   Other
Official Title:   Psychological Benefits of a "Normalized" Camping Experience for Children With Cancer

Further study details as provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

Estimated Enrollment:   9999
Study Start Date:   March 1983

Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine whether quality of life, particularly sense of well being, self-esteem, and relationships with parents, family, and peers, improves in children with cancer who participate in an enriched, normalized camping experience.
  • Determine whether professional or volunteer caregivers improve the quality of their interrelations with this patient population after participating in an enriched, normalized camping experience.

OUTLINE: Patients participate in a full range of age appropriate activities and undergo observation during an enriched, normalized camping experience for 1 week. Patients and their family members undergo psychosocial interviews and patients complete psychological questionnaires before, during, and after the camping experience. Medical care continues to be provided according to the plan formulated between the patient's home medical team and the NIH-based medical team.

Quality of life is assessed.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 9,999 patients will be accrued for this study.

  Eligibility
Ages Eligible for Study:   7 Years to 17 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Diagnosis of cancer

    • Currently receiving treatment OR
    • No more than 3 years since prior treatment OR
  • Young adults with cancer acting as camp counselors

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 7 to 17

Performance status:

  • Not specified

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Not specified

Hepatic:

  • Not specified

Renal:

  • Not specified

Other:

  • Concurrent physical defects allowed

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Concurrent blood products allowed

Chemotherapy:

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • Not specified

Surgery:

  • Prior amputations allowed

Other:

  • Concurrent intramuscular, intrathecal, oral, or IV medications allowed
  Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00018915

Locations
United States, Maryland
Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office     Recruiting
      Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892-1182
      Contact: Clinical Trials Office - Warren Grant Magnusen Clinical Center     888-NCI-1937        

Sponsors and Collaborators
NCI - Center for Cancer Research-Medical Oncology
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators
Study Chair:     Stephen J. Chanock, MD     National Cancer Institute (NCI)    
  More Information


Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database  This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site
 

Study ID Numbers:   CDR0000074606, NCI-83-C-0022F, NCI-T83-1094N
First Received:   July 11, 2001
Last Updated:   October 18, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:   NCT00018915
Health Authority:   Unspecified

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
unspecified childhood solid tumor, protocol specific  
psychosocial effects/treatment  
quality of life  

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Quality of Life

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 03, 2008




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