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NCT06061965 | RECRUITING | Resilience, Psychological

Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions for People With Advance Cancer
Sponsor:

University of Illinois at Chicago

Brief 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.

Condition or disease

Resilience, Psychological

Advance Care Planning

Intervention/treatment

Web-based resilience-building intervention

Phase

NA

Detailed 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.

Study Type : INTERVENTIONAL
Estimated Enrollment : 18 participants
Masking : NONE
Primary Purpose : SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Official Title : Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions Between Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers Using a Resilience-Building Intervention
Actual Study Start Date : 2024-07-09
Estimated Primary Completion Date : 2025-07-31
Estimated Study Completion Date : 2025-07-31

Information not available for Arms and Intervention/treatment

Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
  • * Patients will be eligible for the study if they (1) are ≥ 18 years of age; (2) have a 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.
Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions for People With Advance Cancer

Location Details

NCT06061965

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Locations

RECRUITING

United States, Illinois

University of Illinois Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60607