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Resilience-Building for Advance Care Planning
Facilitating Advance Care Planning Discussions Between Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers Using a Resilience-Building Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Who can join
Ages 18 to 80 · All sexes
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Eligible patients will (1) be ≥ 18 years of age; (2) be diagnosed with stage 3 or 4 cancer; and (3) have a family caregiver who is willing to participate. * Eligible family caregivers will be ≥ 18 years of age. All participants must be able to read, write, and speak English with minimal assistance from others and have access to the internet on a smartphone, laptop, or computer. Exclusion Criteria: * Patient participants will be ineligible if they have (1) a Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) score \< 8; or (2) have completed any form of advance directive.
About the study
The aims of this study are to (1) assess the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the ROCKS intervention among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers through a randomized controlled trial in a cancer center setting; (2) evaluate the preliminary efficacy of ROCKS, as compared to usual care, on changes in completion of advance directives; and (3) explore the dyadic effects of resilience on self-efficacy, optimism, dyadic communication and coping, anxiety, and depression using an actor-partner interdependence model.
What is being tested
- ROCKS (behavioral)
- Usual Care (behavioral)
Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Participants: 152 · Started: May 28, 2026
Contact the study team
- Li-Ting Longcoy · Phone: 312-996-3024
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07428278
Locations in the U.S.
| Illinois | University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.