Recruiting

Communication Strategies

Sponsor:

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Code:

NCT07663539

Conditions

Communication

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

Investigators want to find better ways for doctors and families to talk about cancer and how uncertainty may affect a child's life.

Conditions

Communication

Study ID

NCT07663539

Start date

Jul 9, 2026

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • All participants must be ≥ 18 years of age or legally emancipated
  • Parent Participants must have a child who:

  • Received cancer care from a clinician at St. Jude, as documented in the electronic medical record, AND
  • Died at least 6 months prior to enrollment, but no more than 24 months prior to enrollment.
  • Oncologist participants at St. Jude must:

  • Be listed as the primary oncologist as documented in the electronic medical record, AND
  • Have the respective patient's parent agreement to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Declining, refusal, or unwillingness to participate
  • Inability or unwillingness of research participant to give informed consent.

Study Design

Enrollment

50 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Parent Participants

Parents who have lost a child to cancer

Oncologist Participants

St. Jude doctors who treated the child

Primary outcome measure

  • Bereaved parents of children with cancer and oncologists reflections on communication about prognostic uncertainty during the child's cancer treatment [ Time Frame: Approximately 1-3 weeks after enrollment. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Stephanie Gehle, MD

888-226-4343referralinfo@stjude.org

Locations

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Recruiting

Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105

Contacts

Stephanie Gehle, MD

888-226-4343referralinfo@stjude.org

Principal Investigator:

Stephanie Gehle, MD

More Information

Sponsor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Last update posted

Jul 28, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • Prognostic Uncertainty
  • Bereaved Parents
  • Oncologist

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on 2026-07-28.