NCT04662645

Embedded Palliative Care in Managing Symptoms in Participants With Recurrent Stage III-IV Thoracic Malignancies and Their Caregivers

Embedded Palliative Care in the Management of Advanced Thoracic Malignancies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 68 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial studies how well embedded palliative care works in managing symptoms in participants with stage III-IV thoracic malignancies that has come back and their caregivers. Embedded palliative care may improve distress and anxiety in participants and caregivers.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine feasibility of embedding a palliative care (PC) physician within the James Thoracic Oncology Clinic. II. To assess patient and caregiver outcomes over a 12-month period within an embedded onco-palliative care clinic model. III. To evaluate and describe clinician attitudes and beliefs regarding utilization of embedded palliative care as well as symptoms of provider burnout. IV. To analyze health care utilization among participants receiving embedded onco-palliative care. OUTLINE: Participants and caregivers undergo embedded palliative care comprising symptom management (physical and psychological), advanced directives and goals of care discussion, caregiver support, and referral for adjunctive supportive services as needed at each clinic visit. After completion of study, patients are followed for up to 1 year.

Conditions

• Caregiver
• Malignant Pleural Neoplasm
• Metastatic Thymic Carcinoma
• Recurrent Lung Carcinoma
• Recurrent Thymic Carcinoma
• Stage III Lung Cancer AJCC v8
• Stage IIIA Lung Cancer AJCC v8
• Stage IIIB Lung Cancer AJCC v8
• Stage IIIC Lung Cancer AJCC v8
• Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v8
• Stage IVA Lung Cancer AJCC v8
• Stage IVB Lung Cancer AJCC v8

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Palliative Therapy	Undergo embedded palliative care
OTHER	Questionnaire Administration	Ancillary studies

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-12
• Primary completion: 2019-12-05
• Completion: 2020-12-05
• First posted: 2020-12-10
• Last updated: 2023-10-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States