Status:
COMPLETED
An Interactive Advance Care Planning Intervention to Facilitate a Good Death for Cancer Patients
Lead Sponsor:
Chang Gung University
Conditions:
End Stage Cancer
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-95 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this 5-year interventional study is to design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at facilitating prognosis communication and end-of-life care decision-m...
Detailed Description
A randomized controlled trial with a tailored, multifaceted intervention will be conducted on a convenience sample of 231 dyads of terminally ill cancer patients and caregivers with the same number of...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Terminally ill cancer patients are they:
- have a disease at a terminal stage which continues to progress with distant metastases and is unresponsive to current curative cancer treatment as judged by their oncologists
- are cognitively competent
- can communicate with data collectors
- age ≧ 20
- have a designated family caregiver who agrees to participate in the survey.
- Family caregivers will be recruited if they are:
- family members of cancer patients with a terminally ill disease as defined by this proposed study
- identified by the patients as the persons primarily conduct the patient's care needs without receiving financial reimbursement for the care they provide
- age≧20
- who agree to participate and can communicate with data collectors.
Exclusion
- Patients or family caregivers who are not able to communicate coherently.
- Only one party in the patient-family dyad agrees to participate.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 31 2018
Estimated Enrollment :
466 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01912846
Start Date
January 1 2013
End Date
December 31 2018
Last Update
April 2 2019
Active Locations (1)
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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-LinKo
Linkou District, Taiwan, 333