African Americans (AA) Communities Speak

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Healthy Aging, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Social Responsibility, Care Eliciting Behavior, Racism, Systemic

In brief

African Americans are less likely to receive quality end-of-life (EoL) care. Addressing disparities in EoL care will need efforts to support a better understanding of African American patients' EoL cultural values and preferences for EoL communication and the impact of historical and ongoing care delivery inequities in healthcare settings. Our proposed "Caring for Older African Americans" training program is designed to empower clinicians to improve goal-concordant EoL care delivery by using community-developed storytelling videos to create empathy with experiences of racism in EoL care, guidelines for culturally concordant EoL care delivery, and an implicit bias recognition and management training to mitigate bias in goals of care communication.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05908487

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

60

Starts

2025-02-27

Expected to finish

2028-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-07

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Person with serious illness:
• Cannot be receiving hospice care
• Bereaved Family Member:
• Cannot be a paid "sitter"
• Inclusion Criteria: Aim 1.2
• Bereaved Family member:
• Self-identified as African American (i.e., born, raised, and lived primarily in the US)
• Non-Hispanic or Latino
• Age ≥60 years
• English-speaking
• Loved one dies in the last 12 months and was diagnosed with a condition that fits into one of 3 illness paradigms including cancer, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, neuro- degenerative disease, renal disease, stroke, sepsis, hepatic disease)
• Callahan Six-Item Screener score ≥4
• Able to complete baseline surveys
• Pastors:
• Self-identifying as African American
• White, Non-Hispanic or Latino
• Sged ≥18 years old.
• Inclusion Criteria: Aim 3
• Clinician eligibility:
• Practice at a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) or Montefiore/Einstein site that provides care to patients eligible for outcomes surveys
• At least 3 months of clinical practice at the study site prior to the intervention training to measure pre-intervention patient surveys
• Exclusion criteria:
• Lack of at least 3 months of clinical practice at the study site prior to the intervention training.
• Patient eligibility:
• Self-identified as African American (i.e., born, raised, and lived primarily in the US)

Where it is running

• UAB — Birmingham, Alabama, United States (enrolling)
• Albert Einstein/Montefiore — The Bronx, New York, United States (enrolling)

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