Clinical trial · Interventional
Hospice and End-of-life Symptom Monitoring & Support Using an Automated System Designed for Family Caregivers
Enhancing End-of-Life and Bereavement Outcomes Among Cancer Caregivers: Symptom Care by Phone for Hospice Caregiver Support and Cancer Symptom Relief
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Improving end-of-life care and the suffering caused by poorly controlled symptoms is an important public health concern. The development of an automated telephone symptom monitoring and support system that assists caregivers in providing end-of-life care and communicating information to the patient's hospice nurse has the potential to enhance the management of common end of life symptoms, thus reducing the suffering of patients at end of life as well as the suffering of their family caregivers. This study has developed such a system and is testing the effectiveness of this system.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Death | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCP-Hospice Alert | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention Group
- description
- SCP-Hospice Alert
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: SCP-Hospice Alert
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Usual Care
- description
- Caregiver calls into monitoring system to report the patient's end of life symptoms but does not receive feedback about the symptoms and the hospice nurse does not receive the information.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Family Caregiver's Assessment of Dying Patient's Symptom Severity Level at End-of-Life
- timeFrame
- Changes in patient's end-of-life symptom levels are reported daily by the family caregiver from baseline (date of consent) until the patient's death or 6 months whichever occurs last.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Patient/Caregiver Dyad Inclusion Criteria: * Both patient and caregiver are adults age 18 or over * Patients has a limited life expectancy and has histological diagnosis of cancer * Caregiver is caring for a family member with a limited life expectancy and admitted to one of the participating home care hospice or palliative care programs * Caregiver is English speaking and writing * Caregiver has access to a telephone on a daily basis * Caregiver is cognitively and physically able to use the phone unassisted and complete questionnaires. * Patient is assigned to a nurse case manager who has consented to participate in the research project * Caregiver and patient intend to reside in the local area until the time of the patient's death Exclusion Criteria: * patient not being cared for by a partnering hospice * patient without a histological diagnosis of cancer
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDMooney K, Whisenant MS, Wilson CM, Coombs LA, Lloyd J, Alekhina N, Sloss EA, Steinbach M, Moraitis AM, Berry P, Iacob E, Donaldson G. Technology-Assisted mHealth Caregiver Support to Manage Cancer Patient Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Jul;66(1):33-43. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2023.02.320. Epub 2023 Mar 7. PMID 36889453