Connecting People With Cancer to Employment Support

NCT ID: NCT07027449

Last Updated: 2025-06-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 70 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2028-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2029-06-30

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a clinical workflow that screens adult patients with cancer for challenges at work and refers them to supportive resources is feasible, appropriate, and acceptable to patients and staff members in 2 cancer care settings. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is the clinical workflow feasible and acceptable to participants? Are study procedures feasible and acceptable to participants?

Patient participants will complete 2 surveys: 1 at the time of enrollment and 1 six months later.

Detailed Description

Investigators will conduct a prospective single-arm study at 2 sites to pilot and iteratively adapt a clinical workflow intervention, implementation strategies, and associated study procedures. Investigators will implement the clinical workflow intervention across each study site, then recruit consecutive patients (n=50) to complete patient-reported measures at 2 time points (T1: enrollment; T2: 6-month follow-up. Investigators will recruit staff members (n=20) to complete survey measures at 2 time points (T1: beginning of pilot study period; T2: end of pilot study period).

Conditions

Cancer

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Screening and Referral Workflow

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Screening and Referral Workflow

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Screening and Referral Workflow intervention will include screening eligible patients for employment-related needs and referring those who require support to community-based employment resources.

Interventions

Screening and Referral Workflow

The Screening and Referral Workflow intervention will include screening eligible patients for employment-related needs and referring those who require support to community-based employment resources.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• visiting a participating medical or radiation oncology clinic for new diagnosis, treatment, or follow-up of any type of cancer;
• employed at the time of cancer diagnosis;
• age 18 or older;
• able to give full informed consent;
• able to communicate in English or Spanish.

Eligible Staff:

• age 18 or older;
• employed at one of the participating clinical sites.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Kansas Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Rachel C. Forcino, PhD, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Kansas Medical Center

Central Contacts

Rachel C. Forcino, PhD, MSc

Role: CONTACT

rforcino@kumc.edu

913-588-4742

Other Identifiers

STUDY00161657

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id