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PROACT is a Prospective Master Protocol for a Cohort Study Focused on Evaluating the Implementation of Integrated Proactive Supportive Care Pathways at Gustave Roussy

Recruiting
Conditions
Any Cancer
Interventions
Other: Supportive Care Pathway
Registration Number
NCT06479057
Lead Sponsor
Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris
Brief Summary

PROACT is a prospective master protocol for a cohort study focused on evaluating the implementation of integrated proactive pathways of supportive care.

This is an observational cohort study in the context of a quality-of-care initiative.

It will be evaluated by its impact on patient's distress measured by the NCCN's Distress thermometer at 12 weeks after entering the pathway.

Detailed Description

The primary study endpoint of PROACT is patient distress and supportive care needs (NCCN Distress Thermometer and NCCN Problem list) over a 12-week period after the supportive care needs assessment and referrals in the context of a PROACT pathway.

Secondary study endpoints include:

1. To evaluate the Reach of each pathway through the number of patients who participated in supportive care needs' assessment and in each supportive care intervention (administrative review of attendance log)

2. To evaluate the diversity of patients included in each pathways through evaluation of sociodemographic and economic profile (Socioeconomic and demographic self-reported questionnaire)

3. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on patient's overall health status (EQ-E5-EL)

4. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on patient's quality of life (EORTC QLQ C30)

5. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on symptom burden (MDASI)

6. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on anxiety (HADS)

7. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on Insomnia levels (ISI)

8. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on sexual health (EORTC SHQ-C22)

9. To evaluate the Physician's Adoption of each pathway through the proportion of physicians referring patients to the pathways (referral log)

10. To evaluate patient's adoption through the proportion of patients adhering to supportive care interventions as intended (attendance log)

11. To evaluate patient experience and satisfaction with the pathways (PACIC and adhoc satisfaction questionnaires.

12. To evaluate implementation in through a qualitative analyses of experience, implementation barriers and facilitators (focus groups with patients and providers)

13. To plan for Maintenance of the pathway through a cost effectiveness analysis.

14. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on Intestinal Symptoms (LARS score). if indicated for the specific population

15. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on Anal Incontinence (Wexner score). if indicated for the specific population

16. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on Urinary Symptoms (USP score). if indicated for the specific population

17. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on Hematologic Cancer (FACT-BMT)

18. To evaluate the impact of each pathway and each supportive care intervention on Montgomery Borgatta Caregiver Burden Scale. if indicated for the specific population.

19. To evaluate the healthcare professionals participating in the pathway to screen vulnerability and prevent treatment related burden (F-SUS)

This is a master protocol study that is conducted by collecting sub-studies for each supportive care intervention which share key design components and operational aspects leading to a higher level of coordination than the one achieved by independently conducted studies.

Methodology: it is a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the Reach, Efficacy and potential for Adoption, while identifying barriers to Implementation and strategies to Maintain the pathway in the institution guided by the RE-AIM framework. Data collection will allow evaluation in a macro level (integrated supportive care pathway including supportive care needs assessment and tailored multidisciplinary referrals) and in a micro level (separated for each supportive care intervention).

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
210
Inclusion Criteria
  • Histological confirmation of cancer (any cancer type, any stage)
  • Age ≥ 18 years old
  • Received an integrated supportive care need assessment.
  • Sign the consent form for the PROACT study.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Absence or inability of written consent from the patient.
  • Does not understand or speak French.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
PROACT Supportive Care pathwaysSupportive Care PathwayThis is a prospective cohort study including patients participating in institutional supportive care pathways at diagnosis, during treatment and after treatment.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Patient distressover a 12-week period after the integrated supportive care needs assessment.

Patient distress collected with NCCN Distress Thermometer

Patient unmet needsover a 12-week period after the integrated supportive care needs assessment.

Patient unmet needs collected with problem list from NCCN Distress thermometer

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Impact of the pathway in Quality of lifeweek 12, and 24

Quality of life measured by the EORTC QLQ C30

Impact of the pathway in symptom burdenweek 12, and 24

Symptom burden measured by the MDASI Questionnaire.

Impact of the pathway on insomnia levelsweek 12, and 24

Insomnia measured by ISI

\*only for patients reporting insomnia at baseline

Provider Experience - Qualitative evaluationweek 12

Focus groups with healthcare providers to explore overall experience, workload and implementation challenges

Impact of the pathway on Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bone Marrow Transplantweek 12, week 24

Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bone Marrow Transplant measured by FACT-BMT score.

\*only for patients with Hematologic Cancer

Patient Experienceweek 12

Patient experience measured by the PACIC questionnaire.

Reach of the pathwayweek 12

Proportion of patients who accepted the supportive care needs assessment (descriptive numbers from attendance log)

Diversity of pathway participantsweek 12

Socioeconomic characteristics of participants in the pathway measure by a self-reported socioeconomic questionnaire

Impact of the pathway on anxiety levelsweek 12, and 24

Anxiety measured by HADS

\* only for patients reporting anxiety at baseline

Impact of the pathway on sexual healthweek 12, and 24

Sexual health measured by EORTC SHQ-C22

\*only for patients reporting sexual dysfunction at baseline

Adoption of Patientweek 12

Proportion and of patients that fully adopted each supportive care intervention (e.g.; in the after cancer pathway: attendance to consultations/seminaries/classes, completion of a supportive care program, usage data for Resilience app).

Maintenance of the pathway through a cost effectiveness analysis (QALYs)week 12

Maintenance of the pathway through a cost effectiveness analysis. Costs from the perspective of the French national health insurance will be assessed during the study period. This will be calculated by administrative data review of internal allocated resources for pathway delivery and estimated costs of use of hospital services (unplanned hospitalization, consultations, and emergency visits recorded in the electronic medical records).

QALYs (quality-adjusted life years) will be measured using utility values derived from the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D-5L) (https://euroqol.org/) for French general population (Andrade et al. PharmacoEconomics 2020). QALYs will be computed combining survival time by utility values.

Impact of the pathway on caregiver burdenweek 12

Caregiver burden measured by Montgomery Borgatta Caregiver Burden Scale.

Impact of the pathway in overall health statusweek 12, and 24

Overall health status measured by the EQ-ED-5L

Adoption of Physicianweek 12

Proportion of physicians referring patients to the supportive care pathway (descriptive numbers from referral logs)

Patient Satisfaction/Experience - Qualitative evaluationweek 12

Focus groups with patient to explore overall experience and implementation challenges

Impact of the pathway on Urinary symptomsweek 24

Urinary symptoms measured by USP score.

\*only for patients with digestive cancer

Patient Satisfaction with the pathwayweek 12

Patient satisfaction measured by an ad hoc satisfaction questionnaire

Impact of the pathway on Intestinal Symptomweek 24

Intestinal Symptoms measured by LARS score.

\*only for patients with digestive cancer

Impact of the pathway on healthcare professionals participating in the pathway to screen vulnerability and prevent treatmentweek 12

Healthcare professionals measured by F-SUS Score

Impact of the pathway on Anal incontinenceweek 24

Anal incontinence measured by Wexner score.

\*only for patients with digestive cancer

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Gustave Roussy

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Villejuif, France

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