Community Tele-pal: A community-developed, culturally based palliative care tele-consult randomized controlled trial for African American and White Rural southern elders with a life-limiting illness
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Abstract Background Patients living in rural areas experience a variety of unmet needs that result in healthcare disparities. The triple threat of rural geography, racial inequities, and older age hinders access to high-quality palliative care (PC) for a significant proportion of Americans. Rural patients with life-limiting illness are at risk of not receiving appropriate palliative care due to a limited specialty workforce, long distances to treatment centers, and limited PC clinical expertise. Although culture strongly influences people’s response to diagnosis, illness, and treatment preferences, culturally based care models are not currently available for most seriously ill rural patients and their family caregivers. The purpose of this randomized clinical trial (RCT) is to compare a culturally based tele-consult program (that was developed by and for the rural southern African American (AA) and White (W) population) to usual hospital care to determine the impact on symptom burden (primary outcome) and patient and care partner quality of life (QOL), care partner burden, and resource use post-discharge (secondary outcomes) in hospitalized AA and White older adults with a life-limiting illness. Methods Community Tele-pal is a three-site RCT that will test the efficacy of a community-developed, culturally based PC tele-consult program for hospitalized rural AA and W older adults with life-limiting illnesses (n = 352) and a care partner. Half of the participants (n = 176) and a care partner (n = 176) will be randomized to receive the culturally based palliative care consult. The other half of the patient participants (n = 176) and care partners (n = 176) will receive usual hospital care appropriate to their illness. Discussion This is the first community-developed, culturally based PC tele-consult program for rural southern AA and W populations. If effective, the tele-consult palliative program and methods will serve as a model for future culturally based PC programs that can reduce patients’ symptoms and care partner burden. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03767517 . Registered on 27 December 2018.
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Watts, Kristen Allen; Gazaway, Shena; Malone, Emily; Elk, Ronit; Tucker, Rodney; McCammon, Susan; et al. (2020). Community Tele-pal: A community-developed, culturally based palliative care tele-consult randomized controlled trial for African American and White Rural southern elders with a life-limiting illness. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5072000.v1
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AUTHORS (16)
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Kristen Allen Watts
SG
Shena Gazaway
EM
Emily Malone
RE
Ronit Elk
RT
Rodney Tucker
SM
Susan McCammon
MG
Michele Goldhagen
JG
Jacob Graham
VT
Veronica Tassin
JH
Joshua Hauser
SR
Sidney Rhoades
MK
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
EW
Eric Wallace
JM
James McElligott
RK
Richard Kennedy
MB
Marie Bakitas