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Preparing Family Caregivers to Make Medical Decisions for Their Loved Ones

NCT02429479 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 285

Last updated 2024-01-26

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Summary

The overarching goal of the project is to improve the process and experience of surrogate decision-making by family caregivers. Since feeling unprepared to make surrogate decisions is a major contributor to caregiver stress, the primary outcome is caregiver self-efficacy --i.e., caregivers' assessment of how well prepared they feel to serve effectively as a surrogate decision-maker. Through follow-on Renewal funding, we are now also qualitatively examining family caregivers' experience with surrogate decision-making.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Making Your Wishes Known

Making Your Wishes Known provides tailored education, values clarification exercises, and a sophisticated decision aid that translates an individual's goals and preferences into a specific medical plan that can be implemented by a healthcare team.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard advance care planning

This is a online simple living will form.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Benjamin H Levi, MD PhD · Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center / Penn State College of Medicine

  • Michael J Green, MD MS · Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center / Penn State College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-01
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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