Education and Training
Lay Health Worker Engage, Educate, and Encourage Patients to Share
The purpose of the LEAPS program is to understand how a trained lay health worker who engages with newly diagnosed patients after a diagnosis of an advanced stage of cancer can help to engage patients in advance care planning, improve patient satisfaction with their decision-making, activation, quality of life, and healthcare resource utilization.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.
Stanford Investigator(s):
Intervention(s):
- behavioral: Lay Health Worker Intervention
- other: Usual Care
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Newly diagnosed patients with a cancer diagnosis.
2. Patients with any relapse or progressive disease (any cancer diagnosis) as identified
by imaging or biopsy and confirmed by physician.
3. The patients must be 18 years or older.
4. Patients must have the capacity to verbally consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Inability to consent to the study due to lack of capacity as documented by the
referring physician.
2. Patients without a newly diagnosed malignancy or patients without relapse of disease.
3. Patients not eligible for Fund benefits.
Patients without a newly diagnosed malignancy or patients without relapse of disease.
Ages Eligible for Study
18 Years - N/A
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Not currently accepting new patients for this trial
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Manali I Patel, MD MPH MS
Not Recruiting