Anticipatory care planning in primary care for people living at home or in a care home

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Advance/anticipatory care planning for people at risk of serious illness or death due to a pre-existing long-term condition or frailty; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN54516639
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Edinburgh

Brief Summary

Other publications in https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231180438 Online public information about advance care planning: An evaluation of UK and international websites (added 07/08/2024) Other publications in https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-023-01230-4 Scoping review (added 07/08/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-04-13
• Study Completion: 2023-11-30
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 34

Inclusion Criteria

GP surgeries participating in the implementation:
1. Located in one of the four participating health boards
2. Currently delivers anticipatory care planning

Patients taking part in qualitative interviews to evaluate the impact of anticipatory care planning:
1. Registered with participating practices
2. Has had an ACP conversation at the participating practice within the last 6 months or is a proxy for someone who has
3. Adult (over the age of 16 years)
4. Has the capacity to consent

Healthcare professionals taking part in qualitative interviews:
1. Working at a participating GP surgery
2. Has the capacity to consent

Exclusion Criteria

For participating practices there are no exclusion criteria

For individuals:
1. Lacking the ability to consent
2. Lacking the ability to communicate
3. Interview considered physically or emotional risky by a healthcare professional with knowledge of the patient
4. Interview considered potentially risky to the researcher by a healthcare professional with knowledge of the patient
5. Participant under the age of 16 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient and/or linked informal carer attitude about the acceptability of anticipatory care planning (ACP), assessed using qualitative interviews at two timepoints within 6 and 12 weeks of having an ACP conversation. Inductive thematic analysis is used to determine qualitative content.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
There are no secondary outcome measures