Financial Navigation Program Intervention in Supporting Patients With Solid Tumors and Their Caregivers

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center30 enrolled

Overview

This trial studies how well a financial navigation program intervention works in supporting patients with solid tumors and their caregivers. The financial navigation program intervention is an educational course about cancer treatment cost. This educational course may provide cancer patients and their caregivers with helpful information about dealing with cancer treatment cost.

Participants receive financial navigation program intervention consisting of a financial navigation video, monthly one-one financial counselling session, monthly phone or email consultation with patient navigators for 6 months and complete surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Caregiver Solid Neoplasm

Interventions

Educational InterventionOTHER

Receive financial navigation program intervention

Questionnaire AdministrationOTHER

Ancillary studies

Quality-of-Life AssessmentOTHER

Ancillary studies

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * PATIENTS: Any solid tumor diagnosis (any stage) * PATIENTS: Currently receiving (or completed within 6 months) chemotherapy, radiation, or hormonal therapy for cancer * PATIENTS: In the treating physician's best estimation, has a life expectancy of 6 months or greater * PATIENTS: Able to identify a primary caregiver who is involved in helping with the logistics, financial, or emotional aspects of his/her cancer care * PATIENTS: English-speaking * CAREGIVERS: Caregiver of a patient who is eligible for to participate in the study * CAREGIVERS: English-speaking Exclusion Criteria: * PATIENTS: Cognitive or other impairment that would interfere with ability to understand and/or respond to questions about personal finances and paying for cancer treatment * PATIENTS: Hematologic malignancy (e.g. multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia) * CAREGIVERS: cognitive or other impairment that would interfere with ability to understand and/or respond to questions about patient fiances and paying for cancer treatment

Locations (1)

Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Seattle, Washington, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Accrual rate (number of patients and caregivers enrolled per month)

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Time to accrual

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Proportion of participants completing each of the 3 program components

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Proportion of participants completing the entire program and 6 month follow up

Time frame: Up to 6 months

Financial status assessment

Prior to and following participation in the financial navigation program, patients will complete questionnaire and provide basic information about their financial status including household income, assets, educational level, and employment status.

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Financial distress assessment questionnaire

Will measure patients' level of financial distress before and after participation in various components of the program via a questionnaire that indicates financial distress based on responses

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Patient advocate foundation (PAF) navigators

PAF navigators will tract all issues identified during an initial need assessment with the patients and subsequently all outcomes of any such issues.

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Consumer education and training services (CENTS) financial counselors

The CENTs financial counselors will tract specific recommendations given each patient during the course of the study and share these recommendation with the investigators.

Time frame: Up to 12 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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