Palliative Care focuses on symptom management and quality of life and helps patients with life-limiting illness match goals and preferences for care. While there has been interest in and acknowledgement that palliative care is an important part of training patient navigators, there have been no previous studies examining the effectiveness of a navigation intervention to improve palliative care for patients. This study will examine the feasibility to implement patient navigator and psychosocial interventions.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
14
The patient navigator will provide educational materials, assessments, and counseling to the patients
University of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Feasibility of Recruitment: number of patients that are eligible to participate
Assess how likely patients are to join the study through tracking the number of patients that are eligible to participate.
Time frame: Start of study to end of study, up to 12 months
Feasibility of Completion: number of patients that complete the study
Assess how likely patients are to adhere to the study through tracking the number of patients that complete the study.
Time frame: Start of study to end of study, up to 12 months
Process Measure Assessment
Use the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey to assess Behavior. 9 item questionnaire based on Change Theory using a 6 point Likert scale. Total score is a mean of all items with a range of 1-6.
Time frame: Start of study to end of study, up to 12 months
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