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Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care

NCT02367508 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2016-07-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a mindfulness meditation-based intervention designed to provide a synergistic solution to the avoidant coping that often inhibits advance care planning discussions that are crucial to quality end-of-life care.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MODEL Care

The Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care (MODEL Care) intervention is two-pronged and mutually interactive with: (1) a patient and family caregiver group, and (2) an oncology provider group. Patients and family caregivers meet as a group for 6 weekly sessions of 2 hours each, for a total of 12 hours of class time. Oncology providers will have 5 class sessions for a total of 16 hours of class time. One class is held conjointly with patients, family caregivers, and providers to practice newly-learned skills. The course curriculum is generally based on mindfulness practices, group discussion, and didactic teaching with an emphasis on embodying interpersonal mindfulness in dialogue in daily life.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Walther Cancer Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Indiana University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shelley A. Johns, PsyD · Indiana University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-02-28
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2015-05-31

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