This study is being done to get individuals' feedback on advanced care planning and decision making. This study is divided into two parts (Part 1 and Part 2). The purpose of Part 1 is to survey people to find out what is important to people with advanced cancer (again, their values, such as their goals, concerns and sources of support). This has never been done before in the way the investigators are doing it, and that is why this is called a "pilot" study, which is where a new method or treatment is being created and evaluated. The purpose of Part 2 is to see if combining a medical options video with a short interview about values helps people with how they feel about their medical situation, and what they know about their medical options for their medical situation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
178
Part 1 participants will be scheduled for their single pilot interview. There are no additional assessments.
Subjects will be shown the goals-of-care (GOC) video but not undergo a narrative interview process - they will be contacted as per re-assessment.
subjects will watch the goals-of-care (GOC) video (described in detail in the next paragraph) and then be given the narrative question stem vetted/assessed in part 1 including any changes made to that stem in the process of Part 1 testing. Subjects in P-COCC arm will then be contacted for a telephone interview and audio-taping of their narrative. Interviews will be semi- structured and based off the narrative stem that subjects were previously given for review. Interviews will last approximately 30-45 minutes and will be conducted by staff from the MSKCC Department of Psychiatry \& Behavioral Sciences,
Subjects in the usual care arm will neither be given the narrative stem nor watch the video.
Will be a proof-of-concept, small scale, RCT to measure P-COCC acceptability and other quantitative and qualitative effects. Seventy five participants will be randomized to Usual Care, Video, or Video and Interview.
Memorial Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
assess the acceptability of this piloted P-COCC intervention
primary outcome is assessed in Part 2 of the study, and is acceptability of this newly- developed P-COCC intervention, as measured by subjects in P-COCC arm who will complete three Likert scale questions examining the degree to which they found the narrative recording process.
Time frame: 2 years
quantitative analyses
pre-post scoring on our various psychometric questionnaires (quantitative) and of the subject responses during narrative interviewing (qualitative)
Time frame: 2 years
qualitative analyses
pre-post scoring on our various psychometric questionnaires (quantitative) and of the subject responses during narrative interviewing (qualitative)
Time frame: 2 years
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