Patient and Family Decision Making in the Palliative Care Setting

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Advanced Cancer

In brief

The goal of this research study is to learn about any differences in certain health-related preferences between patients with cancer and their families. The main preferences being studied are how decisions are made about healthcare, as well as how much information people want to know about cancer. Specifically, researchers will compare questionnaire and interview data from Hispanic-Americans living in the United States (the M. D. Anderson part of this multicenter study) with Hispanics living in Latin America (in particular, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00682994

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

780

Starts

2008-03-01

Expected to finish

2012-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-02-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patient with advanced cancer (local recurrence or metastatic) at the time of their follow up visit to the outpatient palliative care clinic or at an agreed date after the first visit to the outpatient palliative care clinic.
• Patient designates a family member who is a patient's parent, spouse, adult child, sibling, other relative, or significant other (any other person defined by the patient as a partner) to answer the family questionnaire.
• Patient is 18 years of age or older (as the assessment tools used in this study have not been validated in the pediatric population).
• Patient with normal cognitive status as determined by the interviewer and by her/his ability to understand the nature of the study and consent process.
• Patient willing to participate in the study and sign informed consent.
• Family member is 18 years of age or older (as the assessment tools used in this study have not been validated in the pediatric population).
• Family member with normal cognitive status as determined by the interviewer and by her/his ability to understand the nature of the study and consent process.
• Family member willing to participate in the study and sign informed consent.
• All participants in the international centers must be from Argentinian, Chilean, or Guatemalan descendence respectively.
• All participants in the U.S. must be from self-reported Hispanic descendence, first or second generation immigrants, and reside in the U.S. for at least 5 years.

You may not qualify if…

• Either patient or family member can not complete the assessments independently.
• Either patient or family member refuses to participate in the study.

Where it is running

• UT MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
• Fundacion FEMEBA - Programa Argentino de Medicina Paliativa - Hospital Tornu — Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Dr. Sotero del Rio Hospital - Catholic University of Chile — Santiago, Chile
• Guatemalan Cancer Institute - INCAN — Guatemala City, Guatemala

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