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Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families
Many childhood cancer survivors desire biological children but are at risk for infertility after treatment. One option for mitigating risk is the use of fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic therapy. Adolescents and emerging adults may rely on their parents to help them decide whether to use f...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8849538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35171948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263886 |
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author | Stanek, Charis Theroux, Charleen I. Olsavsky, Anna L. Hill, Kylie N. Rausch, Joseph R. O’Brien, Sarah H. Quinn, Gwendolyn P. Gerhardt, Cynthia A. Nahata, Leena |
author_facet | Stanek, Charis Theroux, Charleen I. Olsavsky, Anna L. Hill, Kylie N. Rausch, Joseph R. O’Brien, Sarah H. Quinn, Gwendolyn P. Gerhardt, Cynthia A. Nahata, Leena |
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description | Many childhood cancer survivors desire biological children but are at risk for infertility after treatment. One option for mitigating risk is the use of fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic therapy. Adolescents and emerging adults may rely on their parents to help them decide whether to use fertility preservation. While this is often a collaborative process, it is currently unknown how parents can optimally support adolescents and emerging adults through this decision. To address this gap, we developed a family-centered, psychoeducational intervention to prompt adolescents and emerging adults to reflect on their future parenthood goals and attitudes towards fertility preservation, as well as to prompt their parents (or other caregivers) to reflect on their own and their child’s perspectives on the topic. In this randomized controlled trial, families will be randomized to either the standard of care control group (fertility consult) or the intervention group. After their fertility consult, adolescents and emerging adults and parents in the intervention group will complete a fertility preservation values clarification tool and then participate in a guided conversation about their responses and the fertility preservation decision. The primary expected outcome of this study is that participation in the intervention will increase the use of fertility preservation. The secondary expected outcome is an improvement in decision quality. Chi-square analyses and t-tests will evaluate primary and secondary outcomes. The goal of this intervention is to optimize family-centered fertility preservation decision-making in the context of a new cancer diagnosis to help male adolescents and emerging adults achieve their future parenthood goals. |
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spelling | pubmed-88495382022-02-17 Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families Stanek, Charis Theroux, Charleen I. Olsavsky, Anna L. Hill, Kylie N. Rausch, Joseph R. O’Brien, Sarah H. Quinn, Gwendolyn P. Gerhardt, Cynthia A. Nahata, Leena PLoS One Study Protocol Many childhood cancer survivors desire biological children but are at risk for infertility after treatment. One option for mitigating risk is the use of fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic therapy. Adolescents and emerging adults may rely on their parents to help them decide whether to use fertility preservation. While this is often a collaborative process, it is currently unknown how parents can optimally support adolescents and emerging adults through this decision. To address this gap, we developed a family-centered, psychoeducational intervention to prompt adolescents and emerging adults to reflect on their future parenthood goals and attitudes towards fertility preservation, as well as to prompt their parents (or other caregivers) to reflect on their own and their child’s perspectives on the topic. In this randomized controlled trial, families will be randomized to either the standard of care control group (fertility consult) or the intervention group. After their fertility consult, adolescents and emerging adults and parents in the intervention group will complete a fertility preservation values clarification tool and then participate in a guided conversation about their responses and the fertility preservation decision. The primary expected outcome of this study is that participation in the intervention will increase the use of fertility preservation. The secondary expected outcome is an improvement in decision quality. Chi-square analyses and t-tests will evaluate primary and secondary outcomes. The goal of this intervention is to optimize family-centered fertility preservation decision-making in the context of a new cancer diagnosis to help male adolescents and emerging adults achieve their future parenthood goals. Public Library of Science 2022-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8849538/ /pubmed/35171948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263886 Text en © 2022 Stanek et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Stanek, Charis Theroux, Charleen I. Olsavsky, Anna L. Hill, Kylie N. Rausch, Joseph R. O’Brien, Sarah H. Quinn, Gwendolyn P. Gerhardt, Cynthia A. Nahata, Leena Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
title | Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
title_full | Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
title_fullStr | Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
title_full_unstemmed | Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
title_short | Study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: A family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
title_sort | study protocol for fertility preservation discussions and decisions: a family-centered psychoeducational intervention for male adolescents and emerging adults newly diagnosed with cancer and their families |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8849538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35171948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263886 |
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