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Developing a Health Insurance Navigation Program for Survivors of Childhood Cancer

NCT04520061 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 82

Last updated 2025-02-03

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Summary

Dr. Park and her colleagues published findings in the Journal of Clinical Oncology demonstrating that CCSS survivors, compared to siblings, were significantly more likely to be uninsured and to have difficulties obtaining health insurance. Given the current insurance landscape and the additional insurance burden that childhood cancer survivors face, the present study seeks to develop and pilot a health insurance navigation program targeted at feasibility and acceptability with survivors, and improving health insurance literacy and ameliorating financial distress related to medical costs. The proposed health insurance navigation will involve 4 navigator-led health insurance navigation sessions. The study investigators propose that, compared to the control arm (who will receive a health insurance information guide, but will not receive the navigation intervention), participants in the intervention arm will have improved health insurance literacy and decreased financial distress related to medical costs.

Conditions

  • Health Insurance
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health Insurance Navigation Program

The program will be delivered via videoconferencing by a navigator over a 2-month period and will consist of 4 sessions. The navigation intervention sessions will be as follows: Session 1- Learning About Survivorship Healthcare Needs; Session 2- Learning About Your Plan in Relation to Policy; Session 3- Navigating One's Own Plan and Overcoming Obstacles; Session 4- Managing Care Costs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Elyse R Park, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-25
Primary Completion
2022-12-31
Completion
2022-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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