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Resilience-Building for Advance Care Planning
Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
Summary
The aims of this study are to (1) assess the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the ROCKS intervention among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers through a randomized controlled trial in a cancer center setting; (2) evaluate the preliminary efficacy of ROCKS, as compared to usual care, on changes in completion of advance directives; and (3) explore the dyadic effects of resilience on self-efficacy, optimism, dyadic communication and coping, anxiety, and depression using an actor-partner interdependence model.
Official title: Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions Between Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers Using a Resilience-Building Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 80 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
152
Start Date
2026-03-20
Completion Date
2028-07-31
Last Updated
2026-02-23
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
ROCKS
The intervention will be provided to participants to strengthen optimism, communication skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy to support patients and family caregivers in engaging in advance care planning discussions.
Usual Care
An advance directive called Five Wishes will be provided to participants to increase their knowledge about advance care planning.