Advance Care Planning-Complex and Working: Longitudinal Trajectory of Congruence in End-of-Life Treatment Preferences: An RCT.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The effect of advance care planning (ACP) interventions on the trajectory of end-of-life treatment preference congruence between patients and surrogate decision-makers is unstudied.

Objective

To identify unobserved distinctive patterns of congruence trajectories and examine how the typology of outcome development differed between ACP and controls.

Methods

Multisite, assessor-blinded, intent-to-treat, randomized clinical trial enrolled participants between October 2013 to March 2017 from 5 hospital-based HIV clinics. Persons living with HIV(PLWH)/surrogate dyads were randomized to 2 weekly 60-minute sessions: ACP (1) ACP facilitated conversation, (2) advance directive completion; or Control (1) Developmental/relationship history, (2) Nutrition/Exercise. Growth

SUBMITTER: Lyon ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8085073 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature