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NCT05407844
Community Health Worker Based Intervention to Improve Palliative Care
Conditions: Cancer, End Stage Cancer, Malignancy, Advanced Cancer
Sex: All
Ages: 18 Years – N/A
Healthy volunteers: No
Phase: NA
Enrollment: 160
Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Location: University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama
Summary
The study aims to find out if community health worker (CHW) support will improve palliative care outcomes in African American patients with advanced cancer, by comparing the quality of life of patients who are receiving standard care to those whose standard care is supplemented with CHW support.
Eligibility Criteria
Patient Inclusion Criteria:
* Self-identified African American patients with advanced (AJCC stage III or IV) solid organ malignancy
* \>=18 years old
* English speaking
* Intact cognition and ability to provide informed consent
Patient Exclusion Criteria:
* Participants \< 18 years of age
* Participants who are already receiving palliative care services
Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:
* Adult (\>=18 years old) caregivers providing informal (unpaid) care to an eligible African American cancer patient (related or unrelated)
* English speaking
* Intact cognition and ability to provide informed consent
Caregiver Exclusion Criteria:
* Participants \< 18 years of age
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05407844). StuddyBuddy aggregates publicly available trial information.
