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Supportive Care Service Availability for Cancer Caregivers in Community Oncology Practices

Last Updated: 2022-03-02

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

910 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-12-10

Study Completion Date

2020-06-12

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to understand current practices for engaging with informal (unpaid) caregivers of patients with cancer, characterize the availability of supportive care services, and assess the perspectives of multi-disciplinary oncology health care providers regarding identifying and supporting caregivers.

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Detailed Description

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The primary goals of this study are to: 1) estimate the prevalence of: a) caregiver identification practices, b) psychosocial and/or needs assessment practices for caregivers, and c) the availability of and funding models for supportive care services for caregivers at community oncology practices (Objective 1), and 2) assess the perspectives of multi-disciplinary oncology health care providers regarding: a) perceived responsibility for, and barriers to, assessing and supporting caregivers, b) the importance of and self-efficacy in communicating with caregivers, and c) preferences regarding systems approaches to assess and meet caregivers' needs (Objective 2). Additionally, we will explore various practice and provider -level factors that are associated with the listed outcomes in objectives 1 and 2 respectively (Objective 3a and 3b). This study is estimated to enroll 138 Supportive Care Leaders (e.g., Director of Psychosocial Oncology, Supportive Care Services, or Cancer Patient Support) and 690 multidisciplinary Oncology Providers including physicians, nurses, and physician assistants/nurse practitioners. Participants will complete a one-time web-based survey (estimated at 15-20 minutes to complete). The supportive care leader survey will capture: (1) practice characteristics including caregiver identification and psychosocial assessment practices and preferences; supportive care resources; practice structure; practice technology resources; and status of the Caregiver Advise Record and Enable (CARE) Act. The oncology provider survey will capture: (1) provider skills in caregiver communication; perceived responsibility, knowledge and skills, and awareness of resources for meeting caregiver needs; barriers to meeting caregiver needs; provider characteristics; and system intervention preferences.

For data capture regarding supportive care leaders (Objective 1 and 3a), this will be a convenience sample of responders from all WF NCORP sites, therefore no randomization or stratification is necessary.

Regarding objectives pertaining to oncology providers (Objective 2 and 3b), participating sites with corresponding supportive care leaders will identify an appropriate supportive care leader to generate 3 lists of providers: 1) physicians, 2) nurses, and 3) physician assistants/nurse practitioners who routinely provide cancer care (Oncology Care Provider Identification Form, Appendix B). Using previous Landscape data regarding oncology physicians, we estimate that 50% of practice groups have 1-9 oncology physicians, 25% have 10-20, and 25% have 20+ physicians. After practices respond with lists of physicians, nurses, and physician assistants/nurse practitioners, we will classify each site as small, medium, and large using the criteria for physicians listed above. Assuming similar distributions as seen in Landscape, we will randomly sample 4, 12, and 20 total providers at small, medium, and large sites respectively. With approximately 50% of practices participating, we plan to target a weighted average of 10 providers per practice with the goal of a weighted average of 5 completed provider surveys (50% response/practice) for a total of 690 providers included in objective 2 (sample size justification follows in section 9.3). In addition, we will stratify and proportionally allocate by provider types identified at each site using self-weighting samples supplied in their lists of providers. Therefore of those randomly sampled, we will target roughly the same proportion of physicians, nurses, and PA/nurse practitioners as identified from their site administrator. Coordinators at each NCORP practice will provide e-mail addresses only for randomly selected providers (selected numbers from a numbered list), based on the size of the center and stratified proportional to provider types.

Conditions

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Supportive Care

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Supportive Care Leader

A staff member who is knowledgeable about supportive care services for adult oncology patients.

No interventions assigned to this group

Oncology Providers

Physicians, nurses, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners who routinely provide cancer care to adult oncology patients.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) components/subcomponents providing care to adult oncology patients.
* NCORP components/subcomponents willing to: a) identify a supportive care leader knowledgeable about supportive care services that may be available to the practice and b) assist with the identification and recruitment of oncology providers for a brief provider survey.
* NCORP components/subcomponents who share staff and supportive care services may participate as a single practice group
* A staff member at each site who is most knowledgeable about supportive care services for adult oncology patients (e.g., Director of Manger of Psychosocial Oncology, Supportive Care Services, or Cancer Patient Support). If an administrator or leader cannot be identified, the nurse manager or clinic director will be asked to identify a staff member most knowledgeable about psychosocial or supportive care services for adult oncology patients or complete the survey himself or herself.
* Must be a physician, nurse, or physician assistant/nurse practitioner, who routinely provides cancer care to adult oncology patients, including medical, radiation and surgical oncologists or physician assistants (PAs), nurse practitioners (NPs), and nurses who work in oncology settings.
* Must have been in practice at component/subcomponent for at least 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria

* Component/subcomponent exclusively care for pediatric oncology patients. Given the distinct caregiver experience and needs of caregivers of pediatric oncology patients, we are not including components/sub-components that exclusively provide care for pediatric oncology patients.
* Providers in practice less than 6 months.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

99 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Chandylen Nightingale, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Katherine Sterba, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Medical University of South Carolina

Locations

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