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Quality of Life in Children With Cancer

NCT03190499 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 74

Last updated 2018-08-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Childhood cancers cover a wide range of diseases; leukemia, central nervous system cancers and lymphomas are the most common ones among them. During medical treatment children with cancer are at risk of neuromuscular and musculoskeletal complications such as reduced muscle strength, gross and fine motor performance impairment, decreased energy consumption. These neuromuscular and musculoskeletal complications can affect dynamic balance, endurance and quality of life of the children. Childhood cancers have negative effects on sleep. The aim of this study is to identify the status of sleep, fatigue, and quality of life in children with various types of cancer and to examine the relationship between these conditions.The general situation of children will be determined according to findings from this study.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Family based assessment

Family of the children will be assessed with questionnaires about their child health condition.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Suleyman Demirel University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Cumhuriyet University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ayşe Numanoğlu Akbaş · Ass. Prof. Dr.

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-01
Primary Completion
2018-08-01
Completion
2018-08-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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Diseases

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