Resilience-Building for Advance Care Planning
Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions Between Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers Using a Resilience-Building Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
University of Illinois at Chicago
152 participants
May 28, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The aims of this study are to (1) assess the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the ROCKS intervention among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers through a randomized controlled trial in a cancer center setting; (2) evaluate the preliminary efficacy of ROCKS, as compared to usual care, on changes in completion of advance directives; and (3) explore the dyadic effects of resilience on self-efficacy, optimism, dyadic communication and coping, anxiety, and depression using an actor-partner interdependence model.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- Eligible patients will (1) be ≥ 18 years of age; (2) be diagnosed with stage 3 or 4 cancer; and (3) have a family caregiver who is willing to participate.
- Eligible family caregivers will be ≥ 18 years of age. All participants must be able to read, write, and speak English with minimal assistance from others and have access to the internet on a smartphone, laptop, or computer.
Exclusion Criteria1
- Patient participants will be ineligible if they have (1) a Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) score < 8; or (2) have completed any form of advance directive.
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Interventions
The intervention will be provided to participants to strengthen optimism, communication skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy to support patients and family caregivers in engaging in advance care planning discussions.
An advance directive called Five Wishes will be provided to participants to increase their knowledge about advance care planning.
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NCT07428278