Association of Participation in an End-of-Life Conversation Game With Advance Care Planning Behavior and Perspectives Among African American Individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Less than 25% of African American individuals have completed advance directives and are thus vulnerable to poor end-of-life care. Low-cost interventions are needed to increase engagement in advance care planning (ACP).

Objectives

To investigate whether an end-of-life conversation game motivates African American attendees to engage in ACP and to assess whether the game is well received and endorsed.

Exposures

Attendance at an end-of-life conversation game (Hello) played in groups of 4 to 6 participants for 60 minutes.

Design, setting, and participants

Prospective, mixed-methods cohort study conducted from 2018 to 2019 with a 3- to 11-month follow-up interview. Game events were held in 53 community venues across the US; 15 were purposively sampled for

SUBMITTER: Van Scoy LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7210487 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature