Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions for People With Advance Cancer

Advance Care Planning Clinical Trial

Official title:

Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions Between Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers Using a Resilience-Building Intervention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06061965
• Other study ID #: 2023-0430
• Secondary ID: K99NR020358-01A1
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2024
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aims of this study are to (1) identify the advance care planning deliberation process among 20 dyads of patients with advanced cancer and family caregivers and (2) conduct usability testing among 9 dyads to refine the content and design of the web-based resilience-building intervention.

Description:

Patients with advanced cancer have not fully benefited from advance care planning due to the high levels of anxiety and depression experienced and other barriers that affect their appraisals and coping. Despite the protective effects of resilience, there have been few clinical trials improving the resilience skills of patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers to help initiate advance care planning discussions and sustain engagement. This research will provide new insights through using a dyadic intervention approach to advance care planning while developing and evaluating a web-based resilience-building intervention to improve the completion of advance directives, resilience, coping, anxiety, and depression for patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 18
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: October 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients will be eligible for the study if they (1) are = 18 years of age; (2) have a stage 3 or 4 cancer diagnosis; (3) are able to read and respond to questions in English with minimal assistance from family caregivers for interpretation; (4) have previously completed an advance directive such as a living will; (5) have a family caregiver who serves as a surrogate in the advance directive and is willing to participate in the study; and (6) have access to the internet on a cell phone, laptop, or computer.

• Family caregivers will be eligible if they (1) are = 18 years of age; (2) are able to read and respond to questions in English with minimal assistance from others for interpretation; (3) are identified by the patient as a family caregiver who serves as a surrogate for health care decisions; and (4) have access to the internet on a cell phone, laptop, or computer.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have cognitive impairment per a Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire score < 8.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Advance Care Planning
• Resilience, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Web-based resilience-building intervention
There are 6 modules on the website. Participants will be encouraged to verbalize their impressions of the website prototype.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Illinois at Chicago	National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Usability	Qualitative feedback from participants about the impressions of the website prototype	Immediately at the end of the usability testing