Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Goals of Care Communication in Advanced Heart Failure
Brief Summary: This study proposes to evaluate, among adults with advanced heart failure (HF) and their health care providers, the effects of a communication intervention designed to improve patient-provider communication about goals of care (GoC). Patient activated GoC conversations can result in providers' better understanding their patients' preferences for end-of-life care. GoC conversations that occur over time may allow patients and providers to consider a wider range of options earlier in the HF illness trajectory. Preliminary data suggests that the proposed GoC intervention increases the occurrence and quality of patient-provider communication about end-of-life care for advanced COPD. The proposed study will test the effects of the GoC intervention compared to usual care, using a randomized, 2-group (N = 80, n = 40/arm), repeated-measures design. Measures will be taken at a patient's baseline study entry and after the next scheduled clinic visit. Specific Aim 1 is to evaluate change in number of GoC conversations between patient and provider between the two groups. Specific Aim 2 is to examine whether the intervention increases patient quality of life, referrals to palliative care, advance care planning, decreases depression and anxiety. Specific Aim 3 is to describe the feasibility, acceptability, perceived benefits, burden, and implementation success of the intervention in the heart failure clinic setting. Patients will be randomized to the GoC intervention or to receive usual care. Patients in the GoC intervention group, telephone coaching by a research nurse to help patients role-play talking with their HF providers. Both patients and their providers, will be provided with summaries of individualized, patient-centered information about patient preferences for communicating about end-of-life care and patient self-identified barriers to and facilitators of communication about end-of-life care with tips on how to initiate goals of care discussions. Providers of patients in the intervention group will also be provided with patient-specific prognostic information based on the Seattle Heart Failure Model. The GoC intervention will be tested in a real-world clinic setting. This intervention is expected to be relatively cost-effective and easily translated into general cardiology practice in the future. The study is expected to make significant contributions to provision of earlier access to palliative care in the advanced HF disease trajectory.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Goc Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: goals of care | Arm Label: usual care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: goals of care; Assigned to Arm(s): Goc Intervention
B: Arm Label: Control: Usual Care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: DT LVAD Decision Support Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: DT LVAD Decision Support Intervention | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: DT LVAD Decision Support Intervention; Assigned to Arm(s): DT LVAD Decision Support Intervention
C: Arm Label: Active Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Behavioral Support | Arm Label: Usual HF Care; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Usual HF Care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Behavioral Support; Assigned to Arm(s): Active Intervention | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Usual HF Care; Assigned to Arm(s): Usual HF Care
D: Arm Label: Control arm; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Intervention (ACP) arm; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: ACP | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: ACP; Assigned to Arm(s): Intervention (ACP) arm

Answer: A