Effect of the Family-Centered Advance Care Planning for Teens with Cancer Intervention on Sustainability of Congruence About End-of-Life Treatment Preferences: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The effect of pediatric advance care planning (pACP) on the sustainability of end-of-life treatment preference congruence between adolescents with cancer and their families has not been examined.

Objective

To evaluate the longitudinal efficacy of the Family-Centered Advance Care Planning for Teens with Cancer (FACE-TC) intervention to sustain adolescent-family congruence about end-of-life treatment preferences.

Design, setting, and participants

This multisite, assessor-blinded, randomized clinical trial enrolled adolescents with cancer (aged 14-21 years) and their family members from 4 pediatric hospitals between July 16, 2016, and April 30, 2019. Participants were randomized 2:1 to FACE-TC (intervention group) or treatment as usual (control group) and unde

SUBMITTER: Needle JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277499 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature