A Multilevel Intervention to Improve Adherence to Childhood Cancer Survivorship

Description

More than 80% of childhood cancer survivors develop serious or life-threatening late effects after cancer therapy, but \<20% receive recommended survivorship care offered at cancer center survivorship clinics. In a shared care model, the investigators propose to investigate an innovative multi-level intervention consisting of: 1) patient survivorship education via telehealth with the cancer center, 2) ongoing patient-tailored education program within the electronic health record patient portal, 3) a structured interactive phone communication between the cancer center and the primary care clinic, and 4) an in-person visit with the primary care clinic for survivorship care with the goal of achieving high rates of adherence to recommended surveillance for late effects, as well as improving patient and physician knowledge and self-efficacy. If this scalable intervention demonstrates patient completion of recommended care comparable to cancer center survivorship clinics, this innovative study has the enormous potential to deliver recommended care to a larger proportion of childhood cancer survivors and reduce survivorship care disparities, while engaging p to integrate survivorship care as part of overall, lifelong health maintenance.

Conditions

Childhood Cancer, Survivorship, Health Care Utilization, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Adherence, Patient

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

More than 80% of childhood cancer survivors develop serious or life-threatening late effects after cancer therapy, but \<20% receive recommended survivorship care offered at cancer center survivorship clinics. In a shared care model, the investigators propose to investigate an innovative multi-level intervention consisting of: 1) patient survivorship education via telehealth with the cancer center, 2) ongoing patient-tailored education program within the electronic health record patient portal, 3) a structured interactive phone communication between the cancer center and the primary care clinic, and 4) an in-person visit with the primary care clinic for survivorship care with the goal of achieving high rates of adherence to recommended surveillance for late effects, as well as improving patient and physician knowledge and self-efficacy. If this scalable intervention demonstrates patient completion of recommended care comparable to cancer center survivorship clinics, this innovative study has the enormous potential to deliver recommended care to a larger proportion of childhood cancer survivors and reduce survivorship care disparities, while engaging p to integrate survivorship care as part of overall, lifelong health maintenance.

BRidging Information Divides and Gaps to Ensure Survivorship: the BRIDGES Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multilevel Intervention to Improve Adherence to Childhood Cancer Survivorship

A Multilevel Intervention to Improve Adherence to Childhood Cancer Survivorship

Condition
Childhood Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Long Beach

MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach, Long Beach, California, United States, 90806

Denver

Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States, 80045

Hackensack

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, 07601

Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27514

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Diagnosed with any cancer at age \<21 years
  • 2. Treated with chemotherapy and/or radiation
  • 3. 2.0-4.0 years status post-completion of all cancer-related therapy
  • 4. Cancer-free with a life expectancy of ≥2 years
  • 5. English- or Spanish-speaking (also applies to parent/guardian if patient age \<18 years)
  • 6. No previous attendance at a specialty survivorship clinic
  • 7. Followed at one of the 4 participating sites: Hackensack, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill (UNC), University of Colorado Denver (CU), Miller's Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach (MCWH)
  • * Active medical problems severe enough to not be eligible for receiving survivorship care with primary care provider at the time of recruitment

Ages Eligible for Study

2 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Georgetown University,

Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2026-08-31