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SPIRIT for Persons With Dementia and Complex Multimorbidity

NCT04108000 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 38

Last updated 2023-05-24

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Summary

In this study, 30 patient and caregiver dyads will be randomized to receive the SPIRIT-dementia intervention or usual care. Participants will be follow-up with 2-3 days after the intervention to evaluate the impact of SPIRIT on preparedness outcomes. Additional follow up with caregivers will occur 6 months later.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SPIRIT-Dementia

The interventionist will begin the SPIRIT-dementia session by assessing the patient's and surrogate's cognitive, emotional, and spiritual/religious representations of the patient's illness, prognosis, and end-of-life care. Individualized information will be provided about the effectiveness of life-sustaining treatment for people with end-organ failure, and the patient will examine their values about life-sustaining treatment at the end of life. The interventionist will help the surrogate prepare for end-of-life decision-making and for the emotional burden of decision-making. A Goals-of-Care document will be completed at the end of the session. The delivery of SPIRIT-dementia incorporates "enhanced consent techniques," such as reducing information load by proceeding in manageable segments, offering repetition of material, opportunity for rehearsal, and using targeted questioning to verify adequate comprehension prior to eliciting preferences for goals of care.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care

As required by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) written information on advance directives is provided to a patient on the first day of dialysis, and a social worker reviews this information with patients and encourages them to complete an advance directive.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Emory University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mi-Kyung Song, RN, PhD · Emory University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-14
Primary Completion
2022-03-24
Completion
2023-03-23

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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