NCT05407844

Community Health Worker Based Intervention to Improve Palliative Care

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to find out if community health worker (CHW) support will improve palliative care outcomes in African American patients with advanced cancer, by comparing the quality of life of patients who are receiving standard care to those whose standard care is supplemented with CHW support.

Detailed description

This research is being done to establish the effectiveness of a Community Health Worker based palliative care intervention among African American patients with advanced solid organ malignancies and their care givers. The investigators' long-term goal is to reduce the research-to-practice gap in utilization of evidence-based palliative care (PC) in African Americans with advanced cancer. The objectives of this study are to establish the effectiveness of a CHW-based palliative care intervention and develop generalizable knowledge on how contextual factors influence implementation.

Conditions

• Cancer
• End Stage Cancer
• Malignancy
• Advanced Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Community Health Worker (CHW) based palliative care	Those in the intervention group will receive support from a dedicated CHW trained in motivational interviewing, components of palliative care communication, and social determinants of health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-02
• Primary completion: 2027-06-01
• Completion: 2027-09-01
• First posted: 2022-06-07
• Last updated: 2026-04-06

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States