NCT06004141

Behavioral Coaching Intervention (Laguna Health) for Patients With Cancer

Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Powered Behavioral Coaching Intervention (Laguna Health) to Promote Post-Hospital Discharge Recovery for Patients With Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The overall goal of this study is to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of using a behavioral coaching intervention (Laguna Health) for optimizing post-hospital discharge care in patients with cancer. Patients will be randomly assigned into one of the study groups: the behavioral coaching intervention (Laguna Health) + usual care versus usual care alone. The Laguna Health intervention has several components: 1. Post-Discharge Recovery Coaching with a Laguna Health recovery coach to help patients identify barriers to post-discharge recovery 2. Digital psycho-educational content tailored to the needs of patients with cancer 3. Personal healthcare summaries 4. Digital content and coaching on behavioral strategies to promote self-efficacy

Detailed description

This is a single-center, randomized, controlled research study to test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of Laguna Health for improving post-hospital discharge care in patients with cancer. Laguna Health is behavioral coaching intervention wherein patients and their caregivers are paired with a Laguna Health recovery coach to promote post-discharge recovery. Additionally, Laguna Health offers patients and their caregivers access to a mobile platform containing psycho-educational content, healthcare summaries, and interactive features such as journaling and task lists. Participants will be randomized in 1:1 fashion to one of the two study groups: Laguna Health + usual care versus usual care alone, stratified by cancer type and therapy intent (curable solid tumor vs. incurable GI cancer vs. incurable other solid tumor vs hematologic malignancy). Participants randomly assigned to the Laguna Health group will receive access to the Laguna Health recovery coach and mobile platform for 12 weeks after they are discharged from the hospital. Participants randomly assigned to the usual care group will receive usual post-hospital discharge care as arranged by their inpatient oncology team. They will not be given access to the Laguna Health intervention. In both groups, participants are asked to complete questionnaires at baseline, weeks 6, weeks 12 and weeks 24 after enrolling in the study. It is expected that 80 patients and at most 80 caregivers will take part in this study. Laguna Health, Inc. is supporting this research study by providing funding.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Laguna Health	Laguna Health is a novel behavioral coaching intervention (Laguna Health) that provides supportive care to patients with cancer who are discharged from the hospital and their caregivers. The intervention includes four components: 1) behavioral coaching with a Laguna Health recovery coach; 2) digital psycho-educational content tailored to the needs of patients with cancer; 3) summary of post-discharge care tasks; and 4) behavioral strategies to promote self-efficacy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-30
• Primary completion: 2024-01-29
• Completion: 2024-01-29
• First posted: 2023-08-22
• Last updated: 2024-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States