NCT06285929

ACS Community Access to Resources Education and Support

Community Engagement in the Development of Oncology Navigation Training

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 2,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: American Cancer Society, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to evaluate the pilot phase of ACS Cares to identify key implementation outcomes and assess effectiveness of the program to improve distress, enhance communication, and reduce missed appointments and healthcare utilization.

Detailed description

In 2023, the American Cancer Society (ACS) created a new program, ACS Cares, based on the Take the Fight experience and existing literature on non-clinical navigation. The goal of ACS Cares is to supplement existing navigation infrastructure to extend navigation services to a broader population of patients. This is accomplished through designating lower level, timely tasks to volunteers and allowing paid navigators to practice at the highest level of their license (e.g nurses proving symptom management, higher level coordination). The goal of this study is to evaluate the pilot phase of ACS Cares to identify key implementation outcomes and assess effectiveness of the program to improve distress, enhance communication, and reduce missed appointments and healthcare utilization.

Conditions

• Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ACS CARES Student Navigation	Student volunteers providing navigation support to patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis through an SDOH assessment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-01
• Primary completion: 2025-08-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2024-02-29
• Last updated: 2024-02-29

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States