Development of a Comprehensive Financial Navigation Program for Patients With Cancer and Their Caregivers
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Caregiver
- Sponsor
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Enrollment
- 30
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Accrual rate (number of patients and caregivers enrolled per month)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This trial studies how well a financial navigation program intervention works in supporting patients with solid tumors and their caregivers. The financial navigation program intervention is an educational course about cancer treatment cost. This educational course may provide cancer patients and their caregivers with helpful information about dealing with cancer treatment cost.
Detailed Description
Participants receive financial navigation program intervention consisting of a financial navigation video, monthly one-one financial counselling session, monthly phone or email consultation with patient navigators for 6 months and complete surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •PATIENTS: Any solid tumor diagnosis (any stage)
- •PATIENTS: Currently receiving (or completed within 6 months) chemotherapy, radiation, or hormonal therapy for cancer
- •PATIENTS: In the treating physician's best estimation, has a life expectancy of 6 months or greater
- •PATIENTS: Able to identify a primary caregiver who is involved in helping with the logistics, financial, or emotional aspects of his/her cancer care
- •PATIENTS: English-speaking
- •CAREGIVERS: Caregiver of a patient who is eligible for to participate in the study
- •CAREGIVERS: English-speaking
Exclusion Criteria
- •PATIENTS: Cognitive or other impairment that would interfere with ability to understand and/or respond to questions about personal finances and paying for cancer treatment
- •PATIENTS: Hematologic malignancy (e.g. multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia)
- •CAREGIVERS: cognitive or other impairment that would interfere with ability to understand and/or respond to questions about patient fiances and paying for cancer treatment
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Accrual rate (number of patients and caregivers enrolled per month)
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Time to accrual
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Proportion of participants completing the entire program and 6 month follow up
Time Frame: Up to 6 months
Proportion of participants completing each of the 3 program components
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Financial status assessment
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Prior to and following participation in the financial navigation program, patients will complete questionnaire and provide basic information about their financial status including household income, assets, educational level, and employment status.
Patient advocate foundation (PAF) navigators
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
PAF navigators will tract all issues identified during an initial need assessment with the patients and subsequently all outcomes of any such issues.
Consumer education and training services (CENTS) financial counselors
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
The CENTs financial counselors will tract specific recommendations given each patient during the course of the study and share these recommendation with the investigators.
Financial distress assessment questionnaire
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Will measure patients' level of financial distress before and after participation in various components of the program via a questionnaire that indicates financial distress based on responses
Family Reach staff feedback
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Family Reach will track patients that have been granted financial assistance, and will provide any further information obtained from patients interaction.