Trained facilitators' experiences with structured advance care planning conversations in oncology: an international focus group study within the ACTION trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:In oncology, Health Care Professionals often experience conducting Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations as difficult and are hesitant to start them. A structured approach could help to overcome this. In the ACTION trial, a Phase III multi-center cluster-randomized clinical trial in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, United Kingdom), patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer are invited to have one or two structured ACP conversations with a trained facilitator. It is unclear how trained facilitators experience conducting structured ACP conversations. This study aims to understand how facilitators experience delivering the ACTION Respecting Choices (RC) ACP conversation. METHODS:A qualitative study involving focus groups with RC

SUBMITTER: Zwakman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822448 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature