Development of the SPARK family member web pages to improve symptom management for pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments

Table 2 Understanding of SPARK family member web pages stratified by cohort^a,b

SPARK Family Member Web Pages: Section and Subsections	Cohort 1 (n = 10)	Cohort 2 (n = 10)	Cohort 3 (n = 10)	Cohort 4 (n = 10)
SPARK Home Page
Overall	0	0	0	0
What are SPARK and SSPedi?	0	0	0	1
Family Member Home Page
Overall	0/5^c	1	0	0
What can you do on this page?	1/5^c	1	0	0
How would you see your child’s symptom scores?	1	0	0	0
Single SSPedi Administration Report (shows degree of bother for all 15 symptoms)
Overall	0	0	0	0
Interpret degree of bother for a specific symptom	0	0	0	0
Specific Symptom Longitudinal Report (shows one symptom over time on a line graph)
Navigate to specific symptom over time report	0	0	0	0
Interpret specific symptom over time	0	0	0	0
Interpret degree of bother on a specific date	0	0	0	0
Care Recommendations Landing Page
Overall	3	0	0	0

Abbreviations: SPARK Supportive care Prioritization, Assessment and Recommendations for Kids; SSPedi Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool
^a Flow of interview described in text and in Additional file 1, which show evaluated sections
^b Understanding of each section rated by two interviewers on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 1=” completely incorrect” to 4 = “completely correct”. The number of participants who were rated as completely or mostly incorrect are shown
^c Five participants were interviewed in this cohort as the need to test additional aspects of the web pages was identified and the interview structure was revised thereafter

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