Can Making Video Narratives Benefit Adolescents With Cancer

The current research aims to:

A. enlist teens with cancer to produce video narratives about their experiences with their
illness B. explicitly characterize and investigate the videos' content and C. determine what
aspects of the production were helpful to the teen making them and predicted to be helpful to
those watching them.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosed with cancer

- Patients receiving cancer treatment for the first time

- Can complete study before high school graduation

- Must be able to read and understand English

Exclusion Criteria:

- Participants cannot have been treated for other chronic illnesses prior to cancer
diagnosis

- Patients with cognitive and.or verbal capacities impaired to the point where they
cannot consent or assent for themselves

- Patients who cannot communicate narratives clearly due to cognitive and/or verbal
impairments