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FAmily CEntered (FACE) Advance Care Planning for Teens With Cancer

NCT01670461 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2019-03-08

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Summary

Advance Care Planning (ACP) prepares patients and their loved ones for future health care decisions, including end-of-life decisions. Yet, the needs of adolescent oncology patients for participation in ACP, despite its priority, is not well studied. Our goal is to test a model of ACP that anticipates these issues, fully empowers the family and adolescent, and keeps the key role of health care professionals central, building on our earlier work. We hypothesized FAmily CEntered (FACE) ACP, would: (1) increase congruence in treatment preferences between adolescents and surrogates; (2) decrease decisional conflict for adolescents; and (3) increase quality of communication compared with controls.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

FACE

FACE intervention goal is to facilitate conversations about EOL care between adolescents and their legal guardians/surrogates to increase congruence in treatment preferences, to decrease decisional conflict, while supporting plans and actions, psychological adjustment and quality of life. Three 60 to 90-minute sessions in a dyadic format with a trained/certified interviewer. Session 1. The Lyon Family Centered Advance Care Planning Survey©. Session 2. Respecting Choices® Family-Centered Cancer Specific ACP Interview. Session 3. Completion of Five Wishes©.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard of Care (SOC) Control

Standard of Care (SOC) control will be provided with written information that encourages conversation the treatment team. At Children's National the following represent hospital policy: " … regarding advance directives … to honor each non-minor patient's wishes … to encourage and assist patients in determining and expressing their preferences regarding treatment decisions for use in the event they subsequently become unable to make such decisions." Upon admission if they do not have an advance directive, they should be given the "Advance Directive Information Booklet" and the Advance Directive Checklist. If they already have one, the patient is asked to provide a current copy, and it is placed in the medical record.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Cancer Society, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Maureen Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maureen E Lyon, PhD · Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • United States

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