Psychosocial Intervention in Latino Patients with Advanced Cancer

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advanced Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03763032

17-1955.cc

Details and patient eligibility

About

Palliative Care focuses on symptom management and quality of life and helps patients with life-limiting illness match goals and preferences for care. While there has been interest in and acknowledgement that palliative care is an important part of training patient navigators, there have been no previous studies examining the effectiveness of a navigation intervention to improve palliative care for patients. This study will examine the feasibility to implement patient navigator and psychosocial interventions.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults ages > or = 18 years of age
• Must self-identify as Latino/a
• Have stage III/IV cancer
• Seeking or In treatment for their cancer (ie: not in hospice care)
• Not incarcerated
• Have at least moderate baseline distress (> 4 on the NCCN Distress Thermometer) or positive screen for depression (PHQ-2 score >=3) or anxiety (GAD-2 score >=3)

Exclusion criteria

-No exclusion criteria listed

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Stepped Interventions

Experimental group

Description:

Patient navigation intervention, plus various psychosocial interventions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Counseling