PLAN Intervention to Enhance Engagement of Latino Cancer Patients in Advanced Care Planning

Description

This trial tests whether Planning for Your Advance Care Needs (PLAN) intervention works to enhance Latino patients' understanding of and engagement in advanced care planning. The PLAN intervention may be an effective method to help people with cancer plan for and talk about advance care planning (the care they would want if they were unable to communicate) with their loved ones and doctors.

Conditions

Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Metastatic Malignant Solid Neoplasm

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Study overview

This trial tests whether Planning for Your Advance Care Needs (PLAN) intervention works to enhance Latino patients' understanding of and engagement in advanced care planning. The PLAN intervention may be an effective method to help people with cancer plan for and talk about advance care planning (the care they would want if they were unable to communicate) with their loved ones and doctors.

Latinos' Beliefs and Communication About Advance Care Planning

PLAN Intervention to Enhance Engagement of Latino Cancer Patients in Advanced Care Planning

Condition
Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

New York

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States, 10021

Dallas

UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390

Seattle

Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109

Wenatchee

Confluence Health, Wenatchee, Washington, United States, 98801

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Identifying ethnically as Latino.
  • * Locally advanced or metastatic cancer and/or have experienced disease progression on at least first-line chemotherapy.
  • * Ability to provide informed consent.
  • * Not fluent in English or Spanish.
  • * Severely cognitively impaired (as measured by Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire scores of \>= 6 to be delivered by trained study research staff during screening).
  • * Too ill or weak to complete the interviews (as judged by interviewer).
  • * Currently receiving palliative care/hospice at the time of enrollment (to allow prediction of \[advanced care planning\] ACP).
  • * Children and young adults under age 18.
  • * Patients deemed inappropriate for the study by their treating oncologist.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,

Megan J Shen, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Study Record Dates

2025-04-30