NCT03767517Completed
A Culturally-Based Palliative Care Tele-consult Program for Rural Southern Elders
A Community Developed, Culturally-Based Palliative Care Tele-Consult Program for African American and White Rural Southern Elders With a Life Limiting Illness
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Rural patients with life-limiting illness are at very high risk of not receiving appropriate care due to a lack of health professionals, long distances to treatment centers, and limited palliative care (PC) clinical expertise. Secondly, although culture strongly influences people's response to diagnosis, illness and treatment preferences, culturally-based care models are not currently available for most seriously-ill rural patients and their family caregivers. Lack of sensitivity to cultural differences may compromise PC for minority patients. The purpose of this study is to compare a culturally-based Tele-consult program to usual hospital care to determine whether a culturally-based PC Tele-consult program leads to lower symptom burden in hospitalized African American and White older adults with a life-limiting illness.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 209 (actual)
- First submitted
- 29 Oct 2018
- Start date
- 24 Aug 2020
- Primary completion date
- 7 Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT03767517
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 209
- From 24 Aug 2020 to the primary completion date, 7 Dec 2023
- 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
- Currently receiving hospice care;
Other
- Unable to complete baseline interviews;
- No family member/caregiver.
Who the study is looking for
- AA or W;
- 55 years old; has a condition which fits into one of 3 illness paradigms -cancer, chronic progressive, frailty.
- Clinician answers "no" to question: "Would you be surprised if this person died in the next 12 months?"
- Patient has a caregiver who has been involved in their care.
- Able to complete baseline interviews
Age in the registry: 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aiken Regional Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aiken | United States | Unknown status |
| Russell Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Alexander City | United States | Unknown status |
| Anderson Regional Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meridian | United States | Unknown status |
| Highland Community Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Picayune | United States | Unknown status |
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