Community Health Worker Based Intervention to Improve Palliative Care

Status Enrolling by invitation

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aims to find out if community health worker (CHW) support will improve palliative care outcomes in African American patients with advanced cancer, by comparing the quality of life of patients who are receiving standard care to those whose standard care is supplemented with CHW support.

Clinical Trial Description

This research is being done to establish the effectiveness of a Community Health Worker based palliative care intervention among African American patients with advanced solid organ malignancies and their care givers. The investigators' long-term goal is to reduce the research-to-practice gap in utilization of evidence-based palliative care in African Americans with advanced cancer. The objectives of this study are to establish the effectiveness of a CHW-based palliative care intervention and develop generalizable knowledge on how contextual factors influence implementation. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT05407844
Study type	Interventional
Source	Johns Hopkins University
Contact
Status	Enrolling by invitation
Phase	N/A
Start date	November 2, 2023
Completion date	September 1, 2027

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