Dartmouth Hitchcock
Lebanon, New Hampshire, 03756-1000, United States
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NCT Number: NCT07127666
ASKids! Inpatient Agenda-Setting Study for Hospitalized Children With Medical Complexity
The goal of this open pilot is to co-design and test a clinical agenda-setting intervention in the inpatient pediatric environment. We pilot a co-designed structured agenda-setting intervention (SAS) for multi-family meetings about children with medical complexity. Our open pilot will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using the SAS during routine multidisciplinary family meetings (MFM) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. By doing an open pilot, researchers will learn if the agenda-setting instrument and implementation process are feasible and acceptable to patients, their care partner and their clinicians.
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Conditions
Age range
7 year and older
Sex eligibility
All sexes
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Primary location
About this study
In this open pilot, the researchers will adapt and administer a novel structured agenda-setting tool (SAS) in the inpatient pediatric environment. The researchers will determine if their procedures for screening eligible participants, administering the intervention, and administering outcome and other questionnaires are appropriate. Learnings from the open pilot will feed forward into procedures in applications for larger trials of the intervention.
This study only has one arm, the intervention arm. The intervention, the co-adapted SAS, will be administered to all enrolled participants.
Future Directions: This open pilot will provide preliminary data for potential future larger trials.
Who can participate
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
- Pediatric Inpatients: Children aged 7-17 years
- Can communicate in English
- Able to provide verbal assent, with consent from their care partner
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center pediatric patient who currently or has recently (within the last 3 months) been hospitalized with a length of stay of 4≥ days Care Partners: - Adults aged 18≥ years
- Can communicate in English
- Able to provide verbal consent
- Care partners of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center pediatric patients who are currently or have recently (within the last 3 months) been hospitalized with a length of stay of 4≥ days
Exclusion criteria
- For pediatric inpatients, children < aged 7
- For care partners, children aged <18 years
- Cannot communicate in English
- For pediatric inpatients, unable to provide verbal assent
- For care partners, unable to provide consent
- Prisoners
Treatment and study plan
Structured Agenda-Setting Tool
OtherWe are testing a novel clinical visit agenda-setting intervention developed through participatory research methods for the pediatric inpatient environment. This structured agenda-setting (SAS) intervention will be co-designed to include structured discussion topic areas with the option for patients (when appropriate) and their care partners to consider and indicate their priority topic areas and take notes before, during, and after a clinical visit.
Primary outcomes
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Primary Outcome: Feasibility
Time frame: Immediately after intervention delivery
Our primary outcome will be feasibility, assessed by the proportion of patients who receive the intervention.
Secondary outcomes
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Primary Process Outcome: Enrollment Rate
Time frame: Immediately after intervention delivery
Description: As measured by participant enrollment in REDCap.
Other outcomes
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Primary Preliminary Efficacy: Communication Assessment Tool (CAT)
Time frame: Immediately after intervention delivery
15-item patient-reported communication tool, with minor context-specific adaptations
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Secondary preliminary efficacy: Serious Illness Experience
Time frame: Immediately after intervention delivery
Serious illness experience measured by the consideRATE questions; a validated 8-item, plain language (2nd grade) patient-reported experience measure (PREM) with Likert-like response options for patients, and care partners
Study contacts
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Anne E Dade, MPP
CONTACT
Catherine H. Saunders, PhD, MPH
CONTACT
Sponsors and collaborators
Lead sponsor
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Other
Collaborators
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Registry information
Official study title
Centering Children and Care Partners in Complex Pediatric Hospital Stays: Evaluation of a Structured Inpatient Agenda-setting Intervention for Multidisciplinary Family Meetings
Acronym: ASKids
Important dates
- Study start
- 2026
- Primary completion
- 2026
- Study completion
- 2026
- First posted
- Aug 17, 2025
- Registry last updated
- Jul 22, 2026
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