Psychosocial Intervention in Latino Patients With Advanced Cancer

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Advanced Cancer

• Registration Number: NCT03763032
• Lead Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver

Brief Summary

Palliative Care focuses on symptom management and quality of life and helps patients with life-limiting illness match goals and preferences for care. While there has been interest in and acknowledgement that palliative care is an important part of training patient navigators, there have been no previous studies examining the effectiveness of a navigation intervention to improve palliative care for patients. This study will examine the feasibility to implement patient navigator and psychosocial interventions.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-01-23
• Primary Completion: 2018-11-29
• Study Completion: 2018-11-29
• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-12-03
• Study First Posted: 2018-12-04
• Status Verified: 2024-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-08-22
• Last Update Posted: 2024-08-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 14

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults ages > or = 18 years of age
• Must self-identify as Latino/a
• Have stage III/IV cancer
• Seeking or In treatment for their cancer (ie: not in hospice care)
• Not incarcerated
• Have at least moderate baseline distress (> 4 on the NCCN Distress Thermometer) or positive screen for depression (PHQ-2 score >=3) or anxiety (GAD-2 score >=3)

Exclusion Criteria

-No exclusion criteria listed

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Feasibility of Completion: number of patients that complete the study	Start of study to end of study, up to 12 months	Assess how likely patients are to adhere to the study through tracking the number of patients that complete the study.
Feasibility of Recruitment: number of patients that are eligible to participate	Start of study to end of study, up to 12 months	Assess how likely patients are to join the study through tracking the number of patients that are eligible to participate.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Process Measure Assessment	Start of study to end of study, up to 12 months	Use the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey to assess Behavior. 9 item questionnaire based on Change Theory using a 6 point Likert scale. Total score is a mean of all items with a range of 1-6.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Colorado; 🇺🇸 Aurora, Colorado, United States