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Community Health Worker Based Intervention to Improve Palliative Care

NCT05407844 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2026-04-24

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Summary

The study aims to find out if community health worker (CHW) support will improve palliative care outcomes in African American patients with advanced cancer, by comparing the quality of life of patients who are receiving standard care to those whose standard care is supplemented with CHW support.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Community Health Worker (CHW) based palliative care

Those in the intervention group will receive support from a dedicated CHW trained in motivational interviewing, components of palliative care communication, and social determinants of health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fabian M Johnston, MD, MHS · Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-11-02
Primary Completion
2027-06-01
Completion
2027-09-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

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