Clinical trial · Interventional
Enhancing Community Capacity to Improve Cancer Care Delivery
Enhancing Community Capacity to Improve Cancer Care Delivery: The Effect of a Lay Health Worker Intervention on Patient-reported Symptoms, Healthcare Use, Total Costs of Care, and End-of-life Care Delivery
- 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)
Undertreated patient symptoms and resulting acute care use require approaches that improve symptom-burden. Previously a a lay health worker (LHW)-led symptom screening intervention was developed for patients with advanced cancer. This intervention will be expanded to all patients with cancer and the LHW will be trained to refer patients to palliative care and behavioral health. This intervention will evaluate the effect on symptom-burden, survival, healthcare use, and total costs.
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 |
| End of Life | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program participants | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Usual Care | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention Group Arm
- description
- Patients randomized into the intervention will be assigned a lay health worker who will contact the patient to begin the intervention. The intervention includes: proactive symptom assessments for patients for up to 12-months.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Program participants
- Other: Usual Care
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Control Group Arm
- description
- The control group arm will receive usual care as provided by their local oncologists.
- interventionNames
- Other: Usual Care
Primary outcomes (6)
- measure
- Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) Symptom Screen
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Newly diagnosed with cancer * Diagnosis of relapse or progressive disease (any cancer diagnosis) as identified by imaging or biopsy and confirmed by physician. * Must be 18 years or older. * Must have capacity to verbally consent Exclusion Criteria: -Inability to consent to the study due to lack of capacity as documented by the referring physician.
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