Trial reportPediatric blood & cancer2019
Hope and benefit finding: Results from the PRISM randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Pediatric blood & cancer, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Dutch clinical practice guideline for paediatric palliative care: a systematic review and recommendations on psychosocial care including preloss and bereavement care.BMC palliative care · 2025Guideline
- Promoting Resilience in Stress Management: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Psychosocial Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults With Advanced Cancer.JCO oncology practice · 2026Trial
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- Resilience strengthening in youth with a chronic medical condition: a randomized controlled feasibility trial of a combined app and coaching program.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Positive Psychological Well-Being in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Survivors.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2023Trial
- Tincture of Time: The Evolution of Goals in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2021Trial
- Assessment of the Promoting Resilience in Stress Management Intervention for Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Cancer at 2 Years: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2021Trial
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and medically traumatic events (TEs) in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer: a report from the Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) randomized controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Trial
- Sexual Activity and Substance Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults Receiving Cancer Treatment: A Report from the PRISM Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2020Trial
- Examining key sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents and young adults with cancer: A post hoc analysis of the Promoting Resilience in Stress Management randomized clinical trial.Palliative medicine · 2020Trial
- Resilience in adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis: A pilot feasibility study of the promoting resilience in stress management intervention.Pediatric pulmonology · 2020Trial
- Use of the Chatbot "Vivibot" to Deliver Positive Psychology Skills and Promote Well-Being Among Young People After Cancer Treatment: Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Trial
- Effect of the Promoting Resilience in Stress Management Intervention for Parents of Children With Cancer (PRISM-P): A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2019Trial
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- Exploratory analysis of treatment response trajectories in the PRISM trial: Models of psychosocial care.Psycho-oncology · 2019Trial
- Patterns of Hope and Loneliness Among Patients and Caregivers Affected by Biliary Tract Cancers.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Article
- Examining Hope in Adolescents with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms in AYA Cancer Patients: A Mediation Analysis of Hope Agency and Pathways.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Feasibility and proof-of-concept of a combined resilience and social connection intervention for adolescents and young adults with cancer: a pilot randomized trial protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Review
- Embedding Compassion and Communication Frameworks in Pediatric Cardiology.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
backgroundAdolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are at risk for poor psychosocial outcomes, perhaps because they have not acquired skills to navigate the adversities of illness. In a recent phase II randomized controlled trial (RCT), the "Promoting Resilience in Stress Management" (PRISM) intervention was associated with improved patient-reported resilience, quality of life, and distress. In this planned analysis of secondary aims, we hypothesized PRISM would also improve targeted coping skills of hopeful thinking, benefit finding, and goal setting.
methodsWe conducted this parallel RCT at Seattle Children's Hospital from January 2015 to October 2016. English-speaking AYAs (12-25 years old) with cancer were randomized one-to-one to PRISM or usual care (UC). PRISM teaches stress-management, goal-setting, cognitive-reframing, and meaning-making skills in four sessions delivered in-person every other week. Participants completed surveys at enrollment and 6 months later. Mixed effects linear regression models evaluated associations between PRISM and benefit finding (Benefit-Finding Scale for Children), hopeful thinking (Hope Scale), and an exploratory outcome of goal setting (queried with open-ended items about participant's goals, measured qualitatively by three blinded reviewers).
resultsOf N = 92 AYAs (48 PRISM, 44 UC), 73% were 12-17 years old, 43% female, and 62% diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma. PRISM was associated with improved benefit finding and hope with moderate-to-large effect sizes-benefit finding: +3.1 points, 95% CI 0.0, 6.2, d = 0.4, and P = 0.05; and hope: +3.6 points, 95% CI 0.7, 6.4, d = 0.6, and P = 0.01. We did not detect changes in goal setting (-0.5 points, 95% CI -1.2, 0.3, d = -0.3, P = 0.23).
conclusionsPRISM was associated with improvements in benefit finding and hopeful thinking, two adaptive coping skills which may mitigate long-term psychosocial risk.
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