Clinical trials: Advance Directives
Dementia
Effect of an Advance Care Planning Intervention
The intervention being studied is an advance care planning intervention. The trial has two arms: usual care and information arm.
- Trial name
- NCT04852055
- Testing
- Advance Care Planning Video
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,364 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Patient Having a Cancer
Assessments and Recommendations for the Implementation of Advance Directives in Oncology
Legitimized by the Leonetti law of April 22, 2005, advance directives (AD) appear in various places of care that alongside the end of life, and even tend to be generalized to all areas related to health care in general.
- Trial name
- DA (NCT02634632)
- Testing
- Choosing to write advance directives
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Advance Directives
Enabling Advance Directive Completion
Objectives: The objectives of the pilot study were to (1) test the feasibility of recruitment, randomization, and retention; (2) test the feasibility of a standardized Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention; (3)…
- Trial name
- EADCRAV (NCT01746368)
- Testing
- The Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention, Care-as-Usual
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Advanced Care Planning, Shared Decision Making
Advance Care Planning: Communicating With Outpatients for Vital Informed Decision
This Pre-Post, open-cohort design, pragmatic trial with 150 clinicians and will evaluate the effectiveness of the use of telehealth Advanced Care Planning (ACP) Program by comparing ACP documentation among 13,000 patients over 65
- Conditions
- Advanced Care Planning, Shared Decision Making, Video Decision Aids, Communication Skills
- Trial name
- ACP-COVID (NCT04660422)
- Testing
- VitalTalk communication skills training, ACP Decisions Video Program, Intervention training:
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42,019 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Healthy
Activating Seniors to Improve Chronic Disease Care
Chronic diseases are the primary cause of morbidity and mortality for older Americans. Active patient participation in treatment decision-making has the potential to significantly improve outcomes in chronic disease care, but…
- Trial name
- NCT00651495
- Testing
- Patient decision aids for chronic conditions
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 116 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Advance Directive
Investigation About Advance Directives
Advance directives are again in the heart of debate since the Leonetti-Claeys's law . These pieces of legislation allow everyone to decide by advance their wishes of the end of life.However, it does not seem that to legislate on…
- Trial name
- NCT03302052
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph
HIV, HIV Infections
Evaluation of Effectiveness of Pharmaceutical Care on the Adherence of HIV-Positive Patients to Antiretroviral Therapy
INTRODUCTION: Studies prove that the pharmaceutical care (PC) increases the adherence to the antiretroviral; thus, they increase the undetectable viral load.
- Trial name
- PC-HIV (NCT00959361)
- Testing
- pharmaceutical care
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 332 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
End of Life
Survey on Palliative Care and Law Perception
The primary objective of the current survey study is to obtain detailed information about European intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians' awareness of palliative care and relevant, local end-of-life (EoL) legislation.
- Trial name
- PCLAW (NCT06245525)
- Testing
- This is not an interventional study
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 523 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective
Psychiatric Advance Directives for Improved Mental Health Care
During a psychiatric crisis, persons with severe mental illness (SMI) confront complex challenges concerning treatment choices and are often ill equipped or unable to make mental health care decisions.
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective, Bipolar Disorder, Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic
- Trial name
- NCT00105794
- Testing
- Psychiatric Advance Directives intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 360 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Advance Care Planning, Elderly Care
Advance Care Planning in Nursing Homes in Flanders
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that supports adults at any age or stage of health in understanding and sharing their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding future (medical) care.
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Elderly Care, Nursing Home
- Trial name
- ACP+ (NCT03521206)
- Testing
- ACP+ programme
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 684 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- End-of-Life Research Group
Chronic Disease
Development of a Community Engagement Activity for Advance Care Planning
This study will determine the feasibility of using an end-of-life conversation game (called "My Gift of Grace") as a community engagement activity series to help caregivers, patients with chronic illness, and/or their families…
- Trial name
- CERC (NCT02575417)
- Testing
- Conversation Game
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 93 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
This Study Will Focus on Advance Care Planning Among Patients With Life-limiting Illnesses
Default Options in Advance Directives
In a multicenter, randomized clinical trial of default options in advance directives among patients with incurable diseases, we will determine whether this simple and readily scalable intervention can improve patients quality of…
- Trial name
- NCT02017548
- Testing
- Life-extension default advance directive, Comfort default advance directive
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 270 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Older Adults, Advance Care Planning
Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Advance Care Planning for Older Adults and Caregivers After Emergency Visits
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a motivational interviewing (MI) intervention in enhancing advance care planning (ACP) among older adults who have visited the Emergency Room (ER) in the past six months and their…
- Conditions
- Older Adults, Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Family Members
- Trial name
- NCT06090240
- Testing
- Dyadic MI-ACP intervention, Elderly alone MI-ACP
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives
UC Health Care Planning Study
Using a cluster randomized design at the clinic level, this project will implement and test three real-world, scalable advance care planning interventions among primary care clinics across three University of California health…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Advanced Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT04012749
- Testing
- Advance directive, Prepare, Facilitator
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 8,707 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Chronic Disease, Caregivers
Evaluation of an Advance Care Planning Activity: Feasibility Testing for a Randomized Controlled Trial
The overarching goal of this project is to facilitate engagement of individuals in effective advance care planning (ACP). Our specific objective is to conduct a randomized, controlled trial to determine whether playing a…
- Trial name
- NCT02619370
- Testing
- Conversation card game, Active Control
- Volunteers
- 34 people
- Sponsor
- Lauren Van Scoy
Alzheimer Disease, Dementia
Pragmatic Trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes
This is a pragmatic cluster-randomized control trial (RCT) of an Advance Care Planning (ACP) Video Program for nursing home (NH) patients ≥ 65 years old who are cared for in 360 NH facilities (intervention arm n=119; control arm…
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Dementia, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Trial name
- PROVEN (NCT02612688)
- Testing
- ACP Video Program
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 197,692 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
End of Life Care
Behavioral Economics for Advance Care Options
People with life-limiting illness often receive more aggressive healthcare than desired including costly procedures that provide little medical benefit.
- Trial name
- BEACON (NCT02100566)
- Testing
- Counseling (Care giver burden focus), Counseling (patient autonomy focus)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Ascension Health
Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest
End-of-life Practices in 2019 vs. 2014
In 2014, the authors conducted a survey of key opinion leaders on ethical resuscitation practices in 31 European Countries. The authors administered a comprehensive questionnaire to 1-2 "experts" from each country…
- Conditions
- Terminal Illness, Heart Arrest, Ethics, Narrative
- Trial name
- NCT04078815
- Where
- 2 sites in Belgium, Greece
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
Advanced Directive Planning
Patient Perception of Video Advance Care Planning
Rates of advance directive completion among Americans, even those suffering from serious chronic illness, are notoriously poor. Moreover, the contents of completed advance directives are often difficult to interpret in the face…
- Trial name
- NCT02692950
- Testing
- Honor My Decisions Advance Care Planning Video, Post-video questionnaire
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
End of Life
Can the Vascular Physician Sensitize Patients to Redaction of Advance Directives on End of Life?
The Leonetti law of 22 April 2005 on the rights of patients at end of life provides the opportunity for "all adults" to write advance directives in case she would one day be "unable to express their will." If this right is…
- Trial name
- DIRFIN (NCT02892175)
- Testing
- Advance Directives on End of Life
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph