Take the Fight in Supporting and Empowering Patients With Cancer
29. juni 2018 oppdatert av: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
A Pilot Study of 'Take the Fight' as Community-Based Participatory Research
This pilot clinical trial studies Take the Fight in supporting and empowering patients with cancer through their treatment process.
Patients with cancer are faced with many obstacles created by the current state of the healthcare system.
The purpose of Take the Fight is to train college students, also called patients' navigators or strategists, to assist and support patients to navigate into the healthcare system and receive the care they need.
The strategists are matched with patients and attend/coordinate most patients' medical appointments.
The strategists also advance communications between the patient and the medical staff to facilitate both the exchange of medical information as well as increase the patient's compliance with treatment.
Take the Fight may improve the health and quality of life outcomes of cancer patients during critical treatment periods by increasing treatment compliance, eliminating barriers to better care, and increasing clinical trial participation.
Studieoversikt
Status
Avsluttet
Forhold
Intervensjon / Behandling
Detaljert beskrivelse
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Delineate the benefits of and limitations to having Take the Fight strategists, performing as lay-navigators, as perceived by both the patients and the students.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Investigate changes in self-reported outcomes for patients and the Take the Fight strategists.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive patient navigation via strategists from the Take the Fight for 8 weeks. Patients also complete interviews regarding perceived physical, logistical, psychosocial, and informational challenges experienced prior to meeting with strategists/navigators and how challenges were addressed by navigator or others, perceived benefits or limitations of navigator assistance. Strategists also complete interviews regarding their perceptions on how patients benefited from participation, challenges patients experienced that were directly or indirectly related to their cancer diagnosis and treatment, how these concerns were addressed, barriers to addressing these concerns, and patient health literacy.
After completion of study, patients and strategists are followed up for 8-10 weeks.
Studietype
Intervensjonell
Registrering (Faktiske)
54
Fase
- Ikke aktuelt
Kontakter og plasseringer
Denne delen inneholder kontaktinformasjon for de som utfører studien, og informasjon om hvor denne studien blir utført.
Studiesteder
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North Carolina
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Forente stater, 27157
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University
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Deltakelseskriterier
Forskere ser etter personer som passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kalt kvalifikasjonskriterier. Noen eksempler på disse kriteriene er en persons generelle helsetilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.
Kvalifikasjonskriterier
Alder som er kvalifisert for studier
19 år og eldre (Voksen, Eldre voksen)
Tar imot friske frivillige
Ja
Kjønn som er kvalifisert for studier
Alle
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- PATIENTS ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Have histologically confirmed cancer
- Karnofsky performance scale (KPS) score of >= 60
- The ability to understand and be willing to sign an informed consent document
- Willing to undergo a form of cancer therapy and subsequent follow-up care
- STRATEGISTS INCLUSION CRITERIA
- Age >= 18 years
- Wake Forest University student
- Have volunteered as a student strategist at Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU); all strategists are required to have gone through Take the Fight (TTF) training prior to their volunteer work
Studieplan
Denne delen gir detaljer om studieplanen, inkludert hvordan studien er utformet og hva studien måler.
Hvordan er studiet utformet?
Designdetaljer
- Primært formål: Støttende omsorg
- Tildeling: N/A
- Intervensjonsmodell: Enkeltgruppeoppdrag
- Masking: Ingen (Open Label)
Våpen og intervensjoner
Deltakergruppe / Arm |
Intervensjon / Behandling |
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Eksperimentell: Supportive care (Take the Fight)
Patients receive patient navigation via strategists from the Take the Fight for 8 weeks.
Patients also complete interviews regarding perceived physical, logistical, psychosocial, and informational challenges experienced prior to meeting with strategists/navigators and how challenges were addressed by navigator or others, perceived benefits or limitations of navigator assistance.
Strategists also complete interviews regarding their perceptions on how patients benefited from participation, challenges patients experienced that were directly or indirectly related to their cancer diagnosis and treatment, how these concerns were addressed, barriers to addressing these concerns, and patient health literacy.
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Hjelpestudier
Andre navn:
Complete interviews
Receive patient navigation via the Take the Fight strategists
Andre navn:
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Hva måler studien?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tiltaksbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Change in patients self-reported outcomes using European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life-Cancer 30 (QLQ-C30) questionnaire
Tidsramme: Baseline to up to 18 weeks
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Descriptive statistics will be measured, including frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations of patient self-report measures will be calculated.
Ninety-five percent confidence intervals will also be calculated for the outcomes measures at each time point.
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Baseline to up to 18 weeks
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Change in strategists self-reported outcomes using Caregiver Quality of Life Index-Cancer (CQOLC, McMillian, 1996) scale
Tidsramme: Baseline to up to 10 weeks
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Baseline to up to 10 weeks
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Samarbeidspartnere og etterforskere
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Samarbeidspartnere
Etterforskere
- Hovedetterforsker: Stefan Grant, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Studierekorddatoer
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Studer hoveddatoer
Studiestart (Faktiske)
1. februar 2016
Primær fullføring (Faktiske)
1. april 2016
Studiet fullført (Faktiske)
1. april 2016
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først innsendt
28. mars 2016
Først innsendt som oppfylte QC-kriteriene
31. mars 2016
Først lagt ut (Anslag)
6. april 2016
Oppdateringer av studieposter
Sist oppdatering lagt ut (Faktiske)
3. juli 2018
Siste oppdatering sendt inn som oppfylte QC-kriteriene
29. juni 2018
Sist bekreftet
1. juni 2018
Mer informasjon
Begreper knyttet til denne studien
Ytterligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre studie-ID-numre
- IRB00037093
- P30CA012197 (U.S. NIH-stipend/kontrakt)
- NCI-2016-00384 (Registeridentifikator: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))
- CCCWFU 99216 (Annen identifikator: Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University)
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Nei
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