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Mobile Health Application (PACT) to Improve Engagement in Advance Care Planning

NCT04515810 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2026-08-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This clinical trial tests a new mobile health application (app) called Planning Advance Care Together (PACT) to help people with cancer talk about and plan for advance care planning (the care they would want if they were unable to communicate) with their loved ones and doctors. The development of the PACT mobile app may help future patients incorporate their social network (typically, but not exclusively, family) into the advance care planning process.

Conditions

  • Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm
  • Metastatic Malignant Solid Neoplasm
  • Recurrent Hematologic Malignancy
  • Refractory Hematologic Malignancy

Interventions

OTHER

Internet-Based Intervention

Use smartphone application

OTHER

Best Practice

Engage in standard care

OTHER

Telephone-Based Intervention

Receive check-in call

OTHER

Questionnaire Administration

Ancillary studies

OTHER

Post-intervention qualitative feedback interview

Post-intervention qualitative feedback interview (with a subset of patients and support persons)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Megan J Shen, PhD · Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-18
Primary Completion
2027-05-31
Completion
2027-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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