NCT03208530

Motivational Interview Intervention to Help Patients Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department

A Pilot Study to Test the Acceptability and Feasibility of Brief Motivational Interview Intervention to Help Patients Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Test the acceptability and feasibility of a brief motivational interview intervention to facilitate advance care planning (ACP) conversations for older adults with serious co-morbid illness being discharged from the emergency department (ED). The investigators will interview the participants to understand their perception of the intervention and collect patient-reported outcomes data after leaving the ED.

Detailed description

This study is designed to engage seriously ill older adults in conversations about their goals of care. Our intervention is intended to help these patients understand the significance of ED visits in the course of their illnesses.

Conditions

• Emergency Service, Hospital
• Motivational Interviewing
• Advance Care Planning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief motivational interview intervention	A brief (\<7minutes) interview by an emergency department clinician to empower patients to formulate and communicate their goals for medical care with patients' outpatient clinicians.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-31
• Completion: 2019-05-31
• First posted: 2017-07-05
• Last updated: 2022-01-13
• Results posted: 2021-02-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States