NCT03516994Completed
Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Advance Care Planning for Older Adults
REducing Disparities in the QUALity of Palliative Care for Older African Americans Through Improved Advance Care Planning (EQUAL ACP)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 16 May 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study compares the effectiveness of two different approaches to advance care planning among older African Americans and older Whites living in the community. The two approaches are a structured approach with an advance care planning conversation led by a trained person using Respecting Choices (First Steps) and a patient-driven approach which includes a Five Wishes advance care planning form written in plain language. The study will determine which approach is more effective at increasing advance care planning within each racial group and reducing differences between the two groups in advance care planning.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 790 (actual)
- First submitted
- 30 Apr 2018
- Start date
- 1 Aug 2018
- Primary completion date
- 15 Apr 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Duke University
- NCT number
- NCT03516994
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 790
- From 1 Aug 2018 to the primary completion date, 15 Apr 2024
- 4 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- current or prior use of hospice
- current or prior use of non-hospice palliative care except inpatient palliative care consultation
Other illness
- diagnosis of dementia or unable to consent
Other
- residence in nursing home or assisted living facility
- documented advance care plan (living will, health care proxy, MOST form, provider note)
Who the study is looking for
- African-American or White
- age 65 or greater
- English-speaking
- residing in non-institutional setting
- cognitively able to participate in advance care planning
- Serious or chronic illness including: metastatic cancer; end stage renal disease; advanced liver disease, heart disease or lung disease; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, severe Parkinson's disease; 2 or more unplanned hospitalizations in the last year; requiring assistance with any basic activity of daily living
- Serious illness based on the following: Clinician answers "no" to the surprise question: "Would you be surprised if this person died in the next 12 months?"
Age in the registry: 65 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
| University of South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbia | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Texas, Southwestern Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
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