Chatbot-Assisted Advance Care Planning Education for Family Members
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Conditions studied: Advance Care Planning
In brief
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a messaging and chatbot program, called ChatACP, helps family members of people living in nursing homes take part in advance care planning. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does ChatACP help family members feel more ready to talk about future medical and personal care with their loved one? * Does ChatACP help family members take part in advance care planning activities, such as having care discussions or completing planning documents? * Is ChatACP easy to use and acceptable for family members? Researchers will compare ChatACP to standard self-learning materials about advance care planning to see which approach works better. Participants will: * Receive short daily messages with pictures or videos about advance care planning and access to a chatbot specialized in ACP for 10 days * Complete surveys at the start of the study, after the program ends, and again 3 months later * Take part in an interview to share their experience with the program
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07448649
- Run by
- The University of Hong Kong
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2026-06-30
- Expected to finish
- 2028-06-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-03-04
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- aged 18 years or older
- providing care for an older adult (age 65 or above) living in a care home as a family member (including the family members in the traditional sense and the guardian and persons close to or significant to the older adult)
- able to read, write and communicate in Cantonese or Mandarin
- the resident, care recipient, having a prefrail or frail status as defined by a score of 3 or above on the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)
- having a mobile device to receive instant messages and access to cellular network
- engaged in minimal or no prior EOL care discussions with the care home resident as defined by a self-reported status of pre contemplation/contemplation stage on ACP discussions with the resident using the ACP staging algorithm
You may not qualify if…
- suffering from moderate to severe cognitive impairment defined by an Abbreviated Mental Test score of 5 or less and unable to give consent
- suffering from communication problems (e.g., deafness or aphasia)
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