Advance Care Planning Clinical Trial
Official title:
Advance Care Planning for Critical Care - A Prelude to Breaking Barriers
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a process of 'reflection and communication, in which a person with decision-making capacity makes decisions regarding their future health and/or personal care in the event that they become incapable of consenting to or refusing treatment' Most Canadians have not planned for end-of-life Care and are at risk of aggressive medical care that may not be compatible with their wishes. This study aims to systematically evaluate local barriers to making personal choices with regards to life support interventions that can be provided in the contemporary Intensive Care Unit.
HYPOTHESIS: The overarching hypothesis is that the average layperson lacks sufficient
knowledge about the aggressive life support measures used routinely in contemporary Critical
Care to make informed decisions for themselves and their loved ones. Considering that most
Canadians have not even heard of the term Advance Care Planning, it is likely that there is a
gap in their knowledge and expectations of Critical Care. Such a gap can be bridged through
education - the only caveat being that the individual should be in full possession of their
faculties and can make informed decisions. This point is critical.
Thus this study uses a mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) research design to
address the following questions: 1) What is the state of knowledge about Critical Care
interventions among healthy elderly laypersons in London, Ontario? 2) What are the barriers
to formulating ACPs? 3) What opportunities exist for increasing ACP in the healthy elderly
population? The primary objective of this proposal is to assess public knowledge of Critical
Care interventions (and their outcomes) from the perspective of making Advance Care Plans.
Secondary Objectives are 1) To evaluate local barriers to Advance Care Planning 2) To
determine effective modes of education for Advance Care Planning that could be used for the
community and in our hospital setting.
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