NCT06904391

Education & Mentorship of Advanced Practice Providers to Increase Community-based Research Within the NCORP Network, COACH-APP Trial

Building Capacity Within the NCORP Network Through an Education and Mentorship Intervention for Advanced Practice Providers (COACH-APP)

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This clinical trial evaluates whether a mentorship and education intervention called COACH-APP works to improve advanced practice providers' (APPs) confidence in their ability to participate in clinical research (research self-efficacy). APPs are skilled clinicians who are routinely part of cancer care teams, but who may not routinely be part of the research care team at community oncology sites. The COACH-APP program provides focused education and structured mentorship to assist in meaningful integration to the research care team, which may increase research self-efficacy among APPs and ultimately improve patient care and access to clinical trials.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To compare change in research self-efficacy (RSE) scores from baseline to end of study (12 months post-randomization) between APPs in the COACH-APP intervention compared to the education control. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To compare National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) engagement post-study (12-months) for APPs in the COACH-APP intervention compared to the education control. II. To compare changes from baseline to post-study in APP ratings of research care team integration (Assessment for Collaborative Environments \[ACE\]-15) between the COACH-APP intervention and education control. III. To compare practice-level NCORP and National Clinical Trial Network (NCTN) study activity as measured by total number of accruals (patient, non-patient, and organizational) and number of actively recruiting NCORP and NCTN studies over 24 months between practices with APPs receiving the COACH-APP intervention versus those in education control. IV. Within the COACH-APP intervention group, to measure acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness of the COACH-APP intervention for APPs and COACH-APP mentors to guide future implementation. V. Within the COACH-APP intervention group, conduct semi-structured interviews with a sub-set of mentors, APPs, and other key research team members (collaborating oncologists and clinical research professionals) to assess: * Va. Perceptions of feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of the COACH-APP intervention; * Vb. Potential effects of the COACH-APP intervention on the research care team functioning and environment; * Vc. Potential effects of the COACH-APP intervention on patient care quality and access to clinical trials; * Vd. Practice-level barriers and facilitators of APP engagement in research activities.

Conditions

• Other

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Educational Intervention	Receive access to SWOG APP Clinical Research workshop. Receive The Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Trials Research Manual
OTHER	Behavioral Intervention	Complete mentorship intervention
OTHER	Survey Administration	Ancillary studies
OTHER	Interview	Ancillary studies

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-05
• Primary completion: 2028-06-30
• Completion: 2028-06-30
• First posted: 2025-04-01
• Last updated: 2026-04-09

Locations

31 sites across 1 country: United States