Resilience in East Asian Immigrants for Advance Care Planning Discussions

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-80
SponsorUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

About this trial

The purpose of the study is to develop a culturally tailored digital resilience-building intervention to help East Asian immigrants engage in advance care planning discussions with their family caregivers.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Age ≥ 18 years

Serving as a chaplain or religious leader at a healthcare setting or religious organization

Having experience providing pastoral or spiritual care to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans in the US

Being able to read and respond to questions in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, or Korean.

Disqualifiers

Age ≥ 18 years

Having a cancer diagnosis

Likely self-identifying as a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean American/immigrant

Being able to read and respond to questions in either English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese dialects, such as Cantonese, Shanghai, Taishanese, or Taiwanese.

Trial population

Religious leaders providing spiritual care to Asian Americans/immigrants or Asian Americans/immigrants living with cancer

Trial design

Design model

Case-only

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Culturally Tailored Digital Resilience-Building

    Behavioral

    The Culturally Tailored Digital Resilience-Building materials include an introduction to advance care planning and resilience skills that specifically address cultural beliefs and barriers.

  • Semi-structured interviews

    Behavioral

    Semi-structured interviews with religious leaders who provide spiritual care to Asian Americans/immigrants.

Treatment groups

84 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Culturally Tailored Digital Resilience-Building1 intervention
Group B: Religious leaders1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Usability

Use the System Usability Scale (range: 0-100) to assess the usability of the intervention. Higher scores indicate greater perceived usability by users.

Time frame
Immediately at the end of the think-aloud interview

Secondary outcomes

1

Acceptability

Use the Acceptability E-scale to assess the acceptability of the intervention. Scale total scores range from 6 to 30, and higher scores indicate greater acceptance for the proposed intervention.

Time frame
Immediately at the end of the think-aloud interview

Other outcomes

1

Religious leaders experience

An in-depth understanding of religious leaders' perspectives on barriers and facilitators to discussing death-related topics with immigrants from East Asia.

Time frame
Immediately at the end of the interview

Sponsors and contacts

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University of Illinois at Chicago

Lead sponsor

Rockefeller University

Collaborator