Nurse Navigation and Education for Childhood Cancer Survivors
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
In response to RFA-CA-24-027: Addressing Barriers to Healthcare Transitions for Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancers, this study targets barriers at multiple levels and stages in care transition. The study will use a pilot randomized controlled trial testing an interventiont to improve transitions to adult survivorship care among active childhood cancer survivors (CCS) who are newly adults.
Aim: Develop and test a multilevel intervention to improve rates of follow-up visit completion among CCS transitioning from pediatric survivorship care to one of three adult onco-primary care clinics.
Hypothesis: Adult CCS receiving nurse navigation, education, and electronic referral will be more likely to complete follow-up visits at an adult onco-primary care clinic than those on standard referral pathways (electronic referral only).
Who Is on the Research Team?
Amy E Hughes, PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
L. Aubree Shay, PhD, MSSW
Principal Investigator
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Rebecca Eary, DO, MPH
Principal Investigator
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for young adults who survived childhood or adolescent cancer and are now moving from pediatric to adult follow-up care. Participants should be actively receiving survivorship care and ready to transition to an adult clinic.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Nurse navigation and patient education
Trial Overview
The study compares two ways of helping survivors move into adult care: one group gets nurse support, education, and electronic referrals; the other group just gets electronic referrals. The goal is to see which helps more people complete their first adult follow-up visit.
How Is the Trial Designed?
2
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Participants randomized to the ERP arm will receive the SRP, tailored patient education, and patient navigation mapped to the four components of patient navigation
For the SRP, clinicians will send an electronic Care Everywhere referral to the adult onco-primary care program, via the ACE coordinator, an existing clinical staff member in onco-primary care. The coordinator will attempt to contact the adult participant 3 times by telephone or MyChart, which includes text messages. Once contact is made, the ACE coordinator will assess current insurance status and schedule a visit in one of the three onco-primary care clinics depending on patient preference, location, and insurance type
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lead Sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator
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