NCT05049291

Pilot Study of an Advance Care Planning Intervention Among Persons With Dementia

Pilot Study of an Advance Care Planning Intervention Among Persons With Dementia in Long-term Services and Support Facilities

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Advance care planning allows people to have their wishes taken into account even in the advanced stages of the persons' condition and at the end of life when the person may be unable to communicate. However, a recent review found an absence of high-quality guidelines for advanced care planning in dementia care. Since few evidence-based resources exist, the investigators propose a study to generate, refine, and pilot test an education information sheet designed to promote advanced care planning among families of persons with dementia.

Detailed description

To determine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of an education information sheet to promote advance care planning among family members of persons with advanced dementia in long-term services and support facilities. Introducing an education information sheet containing prognosis and outcomes will be feasible, acceptable, and increase self-efficacy and do-not-hospitalize decision preferences among family members of persons with advanced dementia.

Conditions

• Advanced Care Planning
• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	telehealth advance care planning	An education information sheet containing prognosis and outcomes of acute care and intensive treatments

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-10
• Primary completion: 2023-07-18
• Completion: 2023-07-18
• First posted: 2021-09-20
• Last updated: 2023-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States