To compare donors to their non-donor counterparts and healthy controls as well as to generate trajectory classes based on longitudinal patterns of donor HRQoL and identify predictors of poor donor HRQoL.
There is limited data to show the effects that donation has on pediatric donors to their siblings. There is widespread agreement that it is critical to investigate the medical and psychosocial aspects of sibling pediatric HSC donation for multiple reasons including (a) the vulnerability of the pediatric population undergoing donation, (b) increasing use of pediatric HSC donation as a therapeutic option, (c) evidence that \~20% of pediatric HSC donors experience clinically important HRQoL deficits, and (d) the impact that improved understanding of factors predicting poor HRQoL will have on our ability to develop guidelines and/or interventions for assisting at-risk donors/families. The proposed study will help to compare donors to their non-donor counterparts and healthy controls as well as to generate trajectory classes based on longitudinal patterns of donor HRQoL and identify predictors of poor donor HRQoL.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
754
HRQoL (Health Related Quality of Life)
To longitudinally and quantitatively describe the HRQoL of a diverse nation-wide cohort of sibling pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) donors (Peripheral Blood Stem Cell or Bone Marrow) and to compare their HRQoL to that of (1) healthy non-donor sibling from the same family, (2) siblings of children with similar diseases who receive alternate treatments (e.g., unrelated cord blood transplants), and (3) healthy age, gender, and race/ethnicity-matched controls.
Time frame: 1 year
1 year post-donation
To identify and examine donor HRQoL trajectories from pre- through 1 year post-donation.
Time frame: 1 year
Donor characteristics
To determine which donor characteristics (e.g., demographic, psychosocial, and donation-related), recipient characteristics (e.g., recipient disease, transplant complications and outcomes), family characteristics (e.g., composition, cohesiveness, stress), and transplant center characteristics (e.g., presence of a donor advocate) most strongly predict membership in trajectory classes with poor HRQoL among donors.
Time frame: 1 year
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