Take the Fight in Supporting and Empowering Patients With Cancer
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Healthy Subject, Malignant Neoplasm
In brief
This pilot clinical trial studies Take the Fight in supporting and empowering patients with cancer through their treatment process. Patients with cancer are faced with many obstacles created by the current state of the healthcare system. The purpose of Take the Fight is to train college students, also called patients' navigators or strategists, to assist and support patients to navigate into the healthcare system and receive the care they need. The strategists are matched with patients and attend/coordinate most patients' medical appointments. The strategists also advance communications between the patient and the medical staff to facilitate both the exchange of medical information as well as increase the patient's compliance with treatment. Take the Fight may improve the health and quality of life outcomes of cancer patients during critical treatment periods by increasing treatment compliance, eliminating barriers to better care, and increasing clinical trial participation.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02729883
- Run by
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- People needed
- 54
- Starts
- 2016-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-07-03
Who can join
Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- PATIENTS ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Have histologically confirmed cancer
- Karnofsky performance scale (KPS) score of >= 60
- The ability to understand and be willing to sign an informed consent document
- Willing to undergo a form of cancer therapy and subsequent follow-up care
- STRATEGISTS INCLUSION CRITERIA
- Age >= 18 years
- Wake Forest University student
- Have volunteered as a student strategist at Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU); all strategists are required to have gone through Take the Fight (TTF) training prior to their volunteer work
Where it is running
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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