Clinical trials: Palliative Therapy
Cancer Palliative Care
R21 India Pal-Care Evaluation
The goal of this pragmatic clinical trial is to test and evaluate a home-based palliative care intervention for utilizing community health workers to facilitate the delivery of palliative care to cancer patients in rural India.
- Trial name
- NCT04972630
- Testing
- Pal-Care, Control-Usual Care
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 112 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Hospice, End of Life
Tandem VR: Synchronized Nature-Based Experiences in Virtual Reality for Hospice Patients and Their Caregivers
Background: Nature-based virtual reality (VR) and other outdoor experiences in head-mounted displays (HMDs) offer powerful, non-pharmacological tools for hospice teams to help patients undergoing end-of-life (EOL) transitions.
- Conditions
- Hospice, End of Life, Palliative Care, Pain
- Trial name
- NCT06186960
- Testing
- Tandem Virtual Reality
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Prisma Health-Upstate
Terminal Conditions, End of Life
Evaluation of Methods for Implementation of a Comfort Care Order Set
The overarching goal of this research program is to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided to Veterans dying in VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), by transferring the best practices of home hospice and palliative care for the…
- Trial name
- BEACON II (NCT02383173)
- Testing
- Basic Implementation Approach, Enhanced Implementation Approach
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 134 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Palliative Care, Dementia
Implementation of a Telehealth Palliative Care Model for Persons With Dementia
Grounded in the Reach-Effectiveness-Adoption-Implementation-Maintenance (RE-AIM) Model, this study will assess the implementation outcomes of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) delivered telehealth Palliative Care Consultation in…
- Trial name
- IMPACT (NCT05001620)
- Testing
- Palliative Care Consultation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
COPD, Heart Failure
Personalized Experiences to Inform Improved Communication for Minorities With Life Limiting Illness
The purpose of this research is to develop patient-centered palliative care interventions to improve patient-provider communication and Quality of Life (QoL) of ethnic and racial minority patients living with life-limiting…
- Conditions
- COPD, Heart Failure, Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT03391115
- Testing
- Storytelling Intervention for Patient Participants, Storytelling Intervention for Nurse Participants
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Health Care Provider Education
Complementary Therapies in Palliative Care
Palliative care represents one of the most rapidly expanding sectors of health care. Its rapid growth has been accompanied by widespread needs for training of multidisciplinary personnel to work with the unique set of health…
- Trial name
- CTPC (NCT02644356)
- Testing
- Online CE/CME course
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Collinge and Associates, Inc.
Dementia, Alzheimer Disease
The Healthy Patterns Sleep Study
The Healthy Patterns Study intervention is a home-based activity intervention designed to improve symptoms of circadian rhythm disorders (CRD) and quality of life (QOL) in home-dwelling persons with dementia.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Circadian Rhythm Disorders, Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT03682185
- Testing
- Attention-Control Condition, Timed Activity Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 421 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Spinal Cord Injury
Palliative Strategies in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to muscle atrophy, hyperreflexia and spasticity, symptoms that decrease quality of life and prevent effective rehabilitation.
- Trial name
- NCT00594178
- Testing
- Motorized bicycle exercise training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arkansas
Terminal Illness, Critical Illness
Targeting Bias to Reduce Disparities in End of Life Care
This study aims to determine the ways in which clinician implicit racial biases affect clinician communication with family members of patients near the end of life and to test a novel physician training intervention to reduce the…
- Trial name
- BRiDgE-Sim (NCT05165888)
- Testing
- Communication and Bias Mitigation Training, Communication skills training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Montefiore Medical Center
Palliative Care
Technology-enhanced Transitional Palliative Care for Family Caregivers
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect and cost of technology-enhanced transitional palliative care on family caregivers who provide care to a loved one after a hospitalization.
- Trial name
- NCT03339271
- Testing
- Technology-Enhanced Support, Usual Care Support
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 384 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Liver Cancer, Anxiety Disorder
Early Palliative Care With Standard Care or Standard Care Alone in Improving Quality of Life of Patients With Incurable Lung or Non-colorectal Gastrointestinal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers
The study intervention consists of the early integration of palliative care services into standard oncology care in an outpatient setting for patients with advanced lung and non-colorectal gastrointestinal malignancies who are…
- Conditions
- Liver Cancer, Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT02349412
- Testing
- Early palliative care
- Where
- 23 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 405 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology