This study will test a 2-tiered tailored intervention and evaluation of cardiovascular health outcomes among survivors designed to inform childhood cancer survivors about their individual cardiac risk and follow-up recommendations and to provide motivational support for cardiovascular (CV) screening. This study will test if the addition of telephone motivational interviewing, tailored to behavioral constructs, is superior to the current standard of care in increasing survivors' CV screening.
* This study will test the hypothesis that at 1 year post-intervention, a significantly greater proportion of the advanced-practice nurse (APN) phone counseling group will have undergone cardiovascular screening, as compared to the standard care group. Cardiovascular (CV) screening will be defined, based on established CV screening recommendations, as completion of an imaging evaluation of left ventricular systolic function (i.e., echocardiogram, multiple uptake gated acquisition scan, or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging). * This study will measure changes induced by the intervention in survivors' knowledge, motivation, fear, beliefs, affect, readiness for medical follow-up, and self-efficacy and these changes' potential mediating effects on CV screening. * This study will provide a cost analysis of the ECHOS intervention in terms of the cost of left ventricular systolic function imaging per additional survivor screened, an estimate of the cost of standard care per survivor screened, and the cost of screening and follow-up per survivor screened.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
509
A mailed individualized cancer treatment summary with recommendations for CV follow-up and lifestyle modification (standard care).
Standard care plus motivational, autonomy-supportive APN counseling (2 phone sessions) that targets two categories of behavioral constructs likely to influence screening.
St . Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
This study will test the hypothesis that at 1 year post-intervention, a significantly greater proportion of the APN phone counseling group will have undergone cardiovascular screening, as compared to the standard care group
Time frame: 2.5 years
Change in knowledge
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Change in motivation
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Change in fear
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Change in beliefs
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Change in affect
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Change in readiness for medical follow-up
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Change in self-efficacy
Time frame: Baseline and 2.5 years post intervention
Estimated average cost of intervention per participant
Time frame: 2.5 years
Estimated average cost of standard care per participant in the Control Arm
Time frame: 2.5 years
Estimated average cost of cardiovascular screening per participant in the Test Arm
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Time frame: 2.5 years