Actively Recruiting
African Americans (AA) Communities Speak
Led by University of Alabama at Birmingham · Updated on 2026-05-07
60
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
174 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lead Sponsor
M
Montefiore Medical Center
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
African Americans are less likely to receive quality end-of-life (EoL) care. Addressing disparities in EoL care will need efforts to support a better understanding of African American patients' EoL cultural values and preferences for EoL communication and the impact of historical and ongoing care delivery inequities in healthcare settings. Our proposed "Caring for Older African Americans" training program is designed to empower clinicians to improve goal-concordant EoL care delivery by using community-developed storytelling videos to create empathy with experiences of racism in EoL care, guidelines for culturally concordant EoL care delivery, and an implicit bias recognition and management training to mitigate bias in goals of care communication.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
African Americans (AA) Communities Speak
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Self-identified as African American, born, raised, and primarily lived in the US
- Non-Hispanic or Latino
- Age 60 years or older
- English-speaking
- Diagnosed with cancer, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, neuro-degenerative disease, renal disease, stroke, sepsis, or hepatic disease
- Callahan Six-Item Screener score of 4 or higher
- Able to complete baseline surveys
- For bereaved family members: loved one died in the last 12 months with one of the listed serious illnesses
- Bereaved family members must be unpaid care providers
- Pastors must be African American or White, Non-Hispanic or Latino, and at least 18 years old
- Clinicians must practice at UAB or Montefiore/Einstein sites and have at least 3 months of clinical practice prior to training
- Family members must be 18 years or older, English-speaking, community-dwelling, and unpaid care providers
You will not qualify if you...
- Currently receiving hospice care (patients with serious illness)
- Being a paid sitter (bereaved family members or family members)
- Lack of at least 3 months of clinical practice at the study site prior to intervention training (clinicians)
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
UAB
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233
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2
Albert Einstein/Montefiore
The Bronx, New York, United States, 10461
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Research Team
R
Ronit Elk, PhD
CONTACT
T
Tametria V Heard, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Number of Arms
4
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