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In a community-based approach, the investigators long-term goal is to empower African American family caregivers who are designated healthcare proxies to make informed end-of-life treatment decisions for participants with moderate to severe dementia before a life-threatening medical crisis occurs.


Clinical Trial Description

The investigators conducted a randomized controlled trial for efficacy of the Advance Care Treatment Program in an African American church-based community model. The investigators compared the effect of the experimental and control groups on knowledge, self-efficacy, intentions and behaviors from 4 urban African American churches randomly assigned to experimental (n=2) or control (n=2) conditions,304 (experimental n=152; control (n=152) health care proxies of participants that have advanced stage dementia: (a) were concurrently recruited in small classes each with 8-9 healthcare proxies. ;


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NCT number NCT03323411
Study type Observational
Source University of Illinois at Chicago
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Status Completed
Phase
Start date August 15, 2013
Completion date May 31, 2019

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