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Randomized Control Trial of Advance Care Planning in Primary Care

19. februar 2020 oppdatert av: McMaster University

A Randomized Control Trial of an Advance Care Planning Intervention to Engaged Substitute Decision-makers in Primary Care

Sometimes people with health conditions become ill suddenly and can no longer speak for themselves and another person (such as a family member) will make health care decisions for them. This means it is important to think about your wishes and tell others about them. This is called advance care planning. When people have done advance care planning, if they become very sick and cannot speak for themselves they are more likely to get the kind of health care they want and it is easier for the people who make decisions for them. There are tools such as brochures, questionnaires, and videos that can help people learn about these things. This research is being to done to study whether using tools for advance care planning and goals of care discussions will improve how patients and their substitute decision makers do advance care planning. This study is a randomized trial. This means half of the people in this study will meet with someone at their family practice to talk about advance care planning and review some tools and half will get usual care (a Speak Up workbook). The study will 1) evaluate if reviewing the tools, and having help to complete them, helps patients and their substitute decision maker do advance care planning 2) if this intervention will encourage patients to talk to their family doctor about these issues.

Studieoversikt

Detaljert beskrivelse

In prospective and randomized trials, advance care planning (ACP) significantly improves outcomes including increased likelihood that clinicians and families understand and comply with a patient's wishes, reduces hospitalization at the end of life, results in less intensive treatments at the end of life (according to patients' wishes) and increases use of hospice services. Trials have not been done in primary care. In this project, we aim to determine the efficacy of a care pathway designed to increase the quality and quantity of ACP in patients and their substitute decision-makers in primary care. The study is a multi-site, patient-based, unblinded, randomized trial conducted in family practices in Canada. Participants will be patients who are determined by their physician to be able to benefit from ACP, and the patient's substitute decision-maker. Participant pairs will be randomized to immediate intervention (care pathway) or delayed (8-12 weeks). The intervention is guided use of tools and decision aids to clarify values and preferences for treatments in the event of serious illness or near end of life. The outcomes will be substitute decision-maker engagement in ACP (including self-efficacy for enacting the role), patient engagement in ACP, and decisional conflict.

Studietype

Intervensjonell

Registrering (Faktiske)

61

Fase

  • Ikke aktuelt

Kontakter og plasseringer

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Studiesteder

    • Ontario
      • Dundas, Ontario, Canada
        • Dundas Family Health Team
      • Dundas, Ontario, Canada
        • Michael West Doctor Office
      • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 4A6
        • St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
      • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L7S 0A1
        • Burlington Family Health Team
      • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8P 1H6
        • McMaster Family Health Team
      • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
        • McMaster University Medical Centre
      • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8V 5C2
        • Juravinski Cancer Centre Pain and Symptom Management Team

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

65 år og eldre (Eldre voksen)

Tar imot friske frivillige

Nei

Kjønn som er kvalifisert for studier

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients being treated for serious illness in outpatient settings or;
  • Patients who could benefit from advance care planning self-assessed or assessed by their physician
  • Patient able and willing to identify a substitute decision-maker who will participate in the study
  • Patient cognitively able to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient or their substitute decision-maker does not speak English
  • Patient unable to identify a substitute decision-maker who will consent to participation
  • Patient does not consent to participation

Studieplan

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Hvordan er studiet utformet?

Designdetaljer

  • Primært formål: Støttende omsorg
  • Tildeling: Randomisert
  • Intervensjonsmodell: Parallell tildeling
  • Masking: Ingen (Open Label)

Våpen og intervensjoner

Deltakergruppe / Arm
Intervensjon / Behandling
Eksperimentell: Advance care planning education session
Delivery of an advance care planning education session at the family doctor's office
Administration of values clarification tool, elicitation of preference for treatment options, if preference for resuscitation, shown an educational video about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, summary document of values and preferences created by a facilitator to share with doctor
Sham-komparator: Wait list control
The intervention is not provided.
No intervention

Hva måler studien?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Advance care planning engagement of substitute decision-maker
Tidsramme: 8 to 12 weeks (6 weeks for patients from cancer centre)
A survey of the substitute decision-maker's engagement in advance care planning
8 to 12 weeks (6 weeks for patients from cancer centre)

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Advance care planning engagement of patient
Tidsramme: 8 to 12 weeks (6 weeks for patients from cancer centre)
A survey of the patient's engagement in advance care planning
8 to 12 weeks (6 weeks for patients from cancer centre)
Substitute decision-maker self-efficacy survey
Tidsramme: 8 to 12 weeks (6 weeks for patients from cancer centre)
A survey of the substitute decision-maker's confidence to make future decisions
8 to 12 weeks (6 weeks for patients from cancer centre)
Decisional conflict
Tidsramme: immediately after intervention
A modified short decisional conflict survey
immediately after intervention
Satisfaction with intervention
Tidsramme: immediately after intervention
A satisfaction and endorsement survey on the process of the educational intervention
immediately after intervention

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Etterforskere

  • Hovedetterforsker: Michelle Howard, PhD, McMaster University

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Generelle publikasjoner

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Studer hoveddatoer

Studiestart (Faktiske)

1. mars 2018

Primær fullføring (Faktiske)

31. desember 2019

Studiet fullført (Faktiske)

31. desember 2019

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først innsendt

2. august 2017

Først innsendt som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

2. august 2017

Først lagt ut (Faktiske)

4. august 2017

Oppdateringer av studieposter

Sist oppdatering lagt ut (Faktiske)

20. februar 2020

Siste oppdatering sendt inn som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

19. februar 2020

Sist bekreftet

1. januar 2019

Mer informasjon

Begreper knyttet til denne studien

Ytterligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre studie-ID-numre

  • 3714

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