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Lay Health Worker Engage, Educate, and Encourage Patients to Share
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT03699748
Purpose
The purpose of the LEAPS program is to understand how a trained lay health worker who engages
with newly diagnosed patients after a diagnosis of an advanced stage of cancer can help to
engage patients in advance care planning, improve patient satisfaction with their
decision-making, activation, quality of life, and healthcare resource utilization.
Official Title
Lay Health Worker Engage, Educate, and Encourage Patients to Share
Stanford Investigator(s)
Manali Patel
Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Newly diagnosed patients with a cancer diagnosis.
2. Patients with any relapse or progressive disease (any cancer diagnosis) as identified
by imaging or biopsy and confirmed by physician.
3. The patients must be 18 years or older.
4. Patients must have the capacity to verbally consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Inability to consent to the study due to lack of capacity as documented by the
referring physician.
2. Patients without a newly diagnosed malignancy or patients without relapse of disease.
3. Patients not eligible for Fund benefits.
Patients without a newly diagnosed malignancy or patients without relapse of disease.
Intervention(s):
behavioral: Lay Health Worker Intervention
other: Usual Care
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Manali I Patel, MD MPH MS