Video Inspired Discussions About Ethical Outcomes in Pediatrics

Summary

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)?

Conditions

• Pediatric Cancer

Interventions

OTHER

VIDEO-PEDS

Following enrollment, parents will receive a link to view the refined video decision aid that is designed to prompt parents to think about their goals of care for their child with cancer, and then to react by engaging in communication with a trained member of the research team called the Navigator and eventually their clinical team over the course of the 9-month study duration.

OTHER

VIDEO-PEDS pilot

This is the 3-month pilot version of the intervention, which will be further developed for the eventual RWCT.

OTHER

Focus Group

Parents will view the Video aid and provide fascilitated feedback in an audio-recorded virtual group setting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  collaborator NIH

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Yale University

  collaborator OTHER

• Emory University

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

  collaborator OTHER

• Massachusetts General Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Angelo Volandes, MD · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2026-05-05

Primary Completion

2030-01-15

Completion

2030-04-15

Countries

• United States

Study Locations