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NCT ID: NCT06285929

Last Updated: 2024-02-29

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Total Enrollment

2000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-09-01

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this study is to evaluate the pilot phase of ACS Cares to identify key implementation outcomes and assess effectiveness of the program to improve distress, enhance communication, and reduce missed appointments and healthcare utilization.

Detailed Description

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In 2023, the American Cancer Society (ACS) created a new program, ACS Cares, based on the Take the Fight experience and existing literature on non-clinical navigation. The goal of ACS Cares is to supplement existing navigation infrastructure to extend navigation services to a broader population of patients. This is accomplished through designating lower level, timely tasks to volunteers and allowing paid navigators to practice at the highest level of their license (e.g nurses proving symptom management, higher level coordination). The goal of this study is to evaluate the pilot phase of ACS Cares to identify key implementation outcomes and assess effectiveness of the program to improve distress, enhance communication, and reduce missed appointments and healthcare utilization.

Conditions

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Neoplasms

Keywords

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Patient Navigation Patient Satisfaction Patient Engagement Patient Empowerment Patient Participation Treatment Adherance

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Navigated patients

Student volunteer navigation support accessing barriers to care for patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis through a social determinants of health assessment and connecting with resources with an effort to eliminate barriers.

ACS CARES Student Navigation

Intervention Type OTHER

Student volunteers providing navigation support to patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis through an SDOH assessment.

non-navigated patients

Patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis without the support of student volunteer navigation and serving as the baseline and control.

No interventions assigned to this group

Student volunteers

Undergraduate or graduate students volunteering with ACS CARES program to provide navigation support to patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis.

ACS CARES Student Navigation

Intervention Type OTHER

Student volunteers providing navigation support to patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis through an SDOH assessment.

Interventions

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ACS CARES Student Navigation

Student volunteers providing navigation support to patients, families and caregivers with a cancer diagnosis through an SDOH assessment.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patients of health system's healthcare physician champions with a confirmed cancer diagnosis
* patients with a confirmed cancer diagnosis
* families of patients with a confirmed cancer diagnosis
* Caregivers of patients with a confirmed cancer diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria

* patients, families and/or caregivers without a confirmed cancer diagnosis
* patients not receiving care from healthcare physician champions
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

American Cancer Society, Inc.

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Bonny Morris

Senior Director, ACS CARES

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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UCLA Health

Los Angeles, California, United States

Site Status

American Cancer Society

Kennesaw, Georgia, United States

Site Status

University of Iowa Health Care

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

Site Status

Medical University Hospital Authority, Hollings Cancer Center

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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2013209-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id