Recruiting

VIDEO-PEDS

Sponsor:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Code:

NCT06786104

Conditions

Pediatric Cancer

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

VIDEO-PEDS

VIDEO-PEDS pilot

Focus Group

Study Details

Brief 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

Study ID

NCT06786104

Start date

May 5, 2026

Status verified date

May, 2026

Completion date

Apr 15, 2030

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan 15, 2030

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

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).

Exclusion Criteria:

Patient

  • Not receiving primary medical care from the cancer clinic (e.g., second-opinion consultations only)
  • 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

Study Design

Enrollment

567 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: UH3 RWCT Arm - Intervention

This group will receive the VIDEO-PEDS intervention.

no intervention: UH3 RWCT Arm - Control

This group will receive usual care until the 9-month wait period expires.

other: UG3 Pilot Intervention

This group will receive the 3-month pilot version of the VIDEO-PEDS intervention.

other: UG3 Focus Group

This group will participate in the virtual parent focus groups.

Interventions

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.

VIDEO-PEDS pilot

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

Focus Group

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

Primary outcome measure

  • Goals-of-Care Discussion [ Time Frame: At the end of Cycles 1, 2, and 3 (each cycle is 9 months) ]
  • Code Status Limitation [ Time Frame: At the end of Cycles 1, 2, and 3 (each cycle is 9 months) ]
  • Palliative Care [ Time Frame: At the end of Cycles 1, 2, and 3 (each cycle is 9 months) ]
  • Time-Limited Trial [ Time Frame: At the end of Cycles 1, 2, and 3 (each cycle is 9 months) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Joanne E Wolfe, MD

6177242911jwolfe@mgh.harvard.edu

Madeline Avery, MPH

9785053217meavery@mgh.harvard.edu

Locations

Children's of Alabama at Birmingham

Recruiting

Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233

Contacts

Emily Johnston, MD

eejohnston@uabmc.edu

Principal Investigator:

Emily Johnston, MD

Children's Hospital of Atlanta

Recruiting

Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30342

Contacts

Katharine Brock, MD

katharine.brock@choa.org

Principal Investigator:

Katharine Brock, MD

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215

Contacts

Jennifer Snaman, MD

617-632-5548jennifer_snaman@dfci.harvard.edu

Principal Investigator:

Jennifer Snaman, MD

More Information

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Last update posted

May 14, 2026

Last verified

May, 2026

Keywords

  • Advanced Care Planning
  • Palliative Care
  • End of Life

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital on 2026-05-14.