NCT02367508

Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care

Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care (MODEL Care): Feasibility of a Synergistic Intervention for Patients, Family Caregivers, and Providers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indiana University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a mindfulness meditation-based intervention designed to provide a synergistic solution to the avoidant coping that often inhibits advance care planning discussions that are crucial to quality end-of-life care.

Conditions

• Cancer
• Coping Skills

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MODEL Care	The Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care (MODEL Care) intervention is two-pronged and mutually interactive with: (1) a patient and family caregiver group, and (2) an oncology provider group. Patients and family caregivers meet as a group for 6 weekly sessions of 2 hours each, for a total of 12 hours of class time. Oncology providers will have 5 class sessions for a total of 16 hours of class time. One class is held conjointly with patients, family caregivers, and providers to practice newly-learned skills. The course curriculum is generally based on mindfulness practices, group discussion, and didactic teaching with an emphasis on embodying interpersonal mindfulness in dialogue in daily life.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2015-02-20
• Last updated: 2016-07-28