Group Advanced Care Planning Pilot for Veterans
NCT06646614 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50
Last updated 2026-01-28
Summary
The proposed research aims to engage participants in group educational sessions to facilitate learning of topics related to advanced care planning and to determine whether this approach is more effective than usual care alone.
Conditions
Interventions
- BEHAVIORAL
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Group Advance Care Planning Education
Those assigned to the group ACP arm will receive usual care and the intervention which consists of 2 virtual or in-person sessions for a total of 2 hours by a trained community health worker/health educator. Sessions will introduce advanced care planning, help veterans discuss their goals of care with their care teams and learn how to discuss with their families and oncologist, and filing an advanced directive. Participants will be surveyed and interviewed at baseline and again at 8 months post-enrollment.
Sponsors & Collaborators
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US Department of Veterans Affairs
collaborator FED -
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
lead FED
Study Design
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Purpose
- HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
- Masking
- TRIPLE
- Model
- PARALLEL
Eligibility
- Min Age
- 18 Years
- Sex
- ALL
- Healthy Volunteers
- No
Timeline & Regulatory
- Start
- 2025-07-15
- Primary Completion
- 2027-12-01
- Completion
- 2027-12-01
Countries
- United States
Study Locations
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