Patient Navigator PRE-ACT Educational Intervention to Promote Decision Making Among Minorities

Description

This study focuses on psychosocial barriers at the patient level with the goal of promoting high quality decision making around clinical trials participation. The proposed study adapts the PRE-ACT model to racial and ethnic minority patients who were underrepresented in the original PRE-ACT study and will be combined with a patient navigator model.

Conditions

Educational Intervention, Minorities

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Study overview

This study focuses on psychosocial barriers at the patient level with the goal of promoting high quality decision making around clinical trials participation. The proposed study adapts the PRE-ACT model to racial and ethnic minority patients who were underrepresented in the original PRE-ACT study and will be combined with a patient navigator model.

Prospective Cohort Study of a Patient Navigator PRE-ACT Educational Intervention to Promote Decision Making About Clinical Trials Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Patient Navigator PRE-ACT Educational Intervention to Promote Decision Making Among Minorities

Condition
Educational Intervention
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Cleveland

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106

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

  • * Participants must have a diagnosis of either advanced (metastatic) cancer or early stage disease for which they are undergoing oncological work-up, treatment or surveillance
  • * Participants must be at least 18 years of age
  • * Participants have a non-white race or Hispanic ethnicity recorded in their patient demographics in the electronic medical record
  • * Participant must have a life expectancy greater than three months based on the primary oncology team's clinical assessment.
  • * Participants must be able to read and verbally communicate in English.
  • * Participants must provide written informed consent.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center,

Lauren Chiec, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2026-12-31