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Implementing, Evaluating, and Scaling Up of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) Program

NCT03935997 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 594

Last updated 2025-09-25

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Summary

This study will evaluate the implementation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) program using a cross-jurisdictional, effectiveness-implementation type II hybrid design (dual testing of clinical and implementation interventions) to assess the implementation (feasibility, fidelity, reach, sustainability) and effectiveness (family satisfaction, staff knowledge and confidence implementing a palliative approach to care, hospital use).

Conditions

  • Frail Elderly Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) Program

Our team will work with long-term care homes in the study to implement the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) which consists of the following core, evidence-informed components: Palliative Champion Teams (to provide leadership and support implementation); Palliative Care Education (including illness trajectory pamphlets); Comfort Care Rounds with staff (for capacity building and reflection); Prognostic Tools to trigger end-of-life discussions; Palliative Care Conferences with families and residents; Bereavement Pamphlets; and Post-Bereavement Follow-Up for families, and staff.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Alberta Health services

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospice Palliative Care Ontario

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Canadian Virtual Hospice

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Saskatchewan Health Authority - Regina Area

    collaborator OTHER

  • Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • McMaster University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sharon Kaasalainen, PhD · McMaster University, School of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-01
Primary Completion
2025-01-31
Completion
2026-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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