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NCT02320123 · ClinicalTrials.gov registry record · NA
End-of-Life Care for African Americans
A NA study, sponsored by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
- Completed
- Registry status
- NA
- Development phase
- 22
- Enrollment target
NCT02320123 is a NA study that has completed, run by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The registered enrollment target is 22 participants.
The verdict
NCT02320123, a NA study, has completed, sponsored by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
- COMPLETED
- Registry status
- NA
- Development phase
- 22 participants
- Enrollment target
Study Summary
Racial differences in health care are documented across the health care continuum and persist in aging and end-of-life (EOL) care. African Americans (AA) and other underrepresented minorities often choose more aggressive therapies at the end of life and are less likely to utilize hospice care in the terminal stages of their illness. Potential reasons for these disparities include: lack of knowledge of and misperceptions about palliative and hospice care, spiritual beliefs, and mistrust in the health care system, among others. Despite the literature on disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care and reasons for underuse and the presence of national EOL care guidelines, attempts to address this problem have been limited and often not rigorously evaluated. The majority of interventions to promote EOL care were done in majority populations and focused predominantly on trying to change physician awareness of patient's pain, symptoms, and values or to change physician communication behavior. While these early studies made tremendous contributions to the study of EOL care and the needs of the terminally ill, the interventions associated with these studies did not reach their desired effectiveness. The investigators propose a different strategy that would focus specifically on previously identified barriers to utilization of advance directives, palliative care, and hospice care among African Americans - including physicians' difficulty and discomfort with prognostication, AA patients' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards hospice and palliative care, conflict between patients' spiritual beliefs and the general hospice and palliative medicine philosophy of care, and medical mistrust. The goal of this project is to improve methods of prognostication for physicians and increase awareness of EOL care options for AAs. To overcome the dual challenges of physicians' reluctance to discuss EOL care and patients' discomfort in engaging in such conversations, the investigators will use t
Interventions
- BEHAVIORAL Educational DVD
Trial Details
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Enrollment Target | 22 participants |
| Start Date | 2016-05-23 |
| Est. Completion | 2017-08-10 |
| Phase | NA |
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The ClinicalTrials.gov registry entry for NCT02320123 describes a study currently listed as completed, categorized as NA. The registered enrollment target is 22 participants, a figure that helps gauge the scale of data the investigators plan to collect. The listed sponsor is University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which has 837 total studies on file at ClinicalTrials.gov.
The record links to 0 conditions, and to 1 intervention - of which Educational DVD is the first listed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is clinical trial NCT02320123 about?
NCT02320123 is a clinical study titled "End-of-Life Care for African Americans". Racial differences in health care are documented across the health care continuum and persist in aging and end-of-life (EOL) care. African Americans (AA) and other underrepresented minorities often choose more aggressive therapies at the end of life and are less likely to utilize hospice care in the...
What is the current status of trial NCT02320123?
This trial is currently completed. It is a NA study. The enrollment target is 22 participants. The study started on 2016-05-23. Estimated completion is 2017-08-10.
What interventions are being tested in trial NCT02320123?
The interventions under investigation include: Educational DVD (BEHAVIORAL).
Who is sponsoring clinical trial NCT02320123?
This trial is sponsored by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which has 837 total clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.
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