STAMP: Sharing and Talking About My Preferences
- Conditions
- Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
- Registration Number
- NCT03137459
- Lead Sponsor
- Yale University
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of an individually transtheoretical model (TTM) tailored intervention on the completion of advance care planning (ACP) behaviors.
- Detailed Description
This will be a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of an individually TTM-tailored intervention on the proportion of middle-age and older persons recruited from primary care practices who complete four ACP behaviors (completion of a living will, assignment of a health care proxy, and communication with loved ones and with their clinician about views on quality versus quantity of life) over six months, compared with usual care.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 909
- Participants will be community-dwelling persons with an upcoming primary care visit in the study's practice settings.
- Severe hearing impairment, defined as being unable to participate in a telephone conversation.
- Severe visual impairment, defined as being unable to read large-print materials.
- Moderate to severe cognitive impairment, defined as either a diagnosis of dementia and/or short-term recall of <2/3 objects at 2 minutes.
- Primary language other than English.
- Having completed all of the four ACP behaviors that are the focus of this study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of Participants Who Completed Four ACP Activities: Communication With Loved Ones About Quality Versus Quantity of Life, Completion of a Living Will, Assignment of a Healthcare Agent, and Confirmation of Documents in the Electronic Health Record. 6 months The primary outcome of the study is to assess the proportion of participants that have completed the four ACP behaviors. The measure will be coded as a binary outcome where 'yes' indicates the completion of all 4 behaviors and 'no' indicates no completing the 4 behaviors.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of Participants Who Assign a Healthcare Agent 6 months Number of Participants Who Complete a Living Will 6-months Number of Participants Who Communicate With a Loved One About Quality Versus Quantity of Life 6 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Northeast Medical Groups
🇺🇸New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Northeast Medical Groups🇺🇸New Haven, Connecticut, United States