Randomized Trial of ROCKS Web-Based Resilience Program to Support Advance Care Planning for Adults with Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are evaluating a web-based resilience-building intervention called ROCKS for patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. This study aims to see if ROCKS can improve the completion of advance directives, enhance resilience, coping, optimism, communication, self-efficacy, and reduce anxiety and depression. The trial compares ROCKS to usual care to understand its effects on these important aspects of advance care planning. Participants are randomly assigned to one of two groups one receives the ROCKS intervention designed to strengthen optimism, communication skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy for advance care planning discussions, while the other receives usual care with an advance directive called Five Wishes. This trial takes place in a cancer center setting and evaluates outcomes primarily at 8 weeks. During the study, participants engage with the assigned intervention and complete assessments measuring advance directive completion, resilience, optimism, communication and coping between patient and caregiver, knowledge, self-efficacy, anxiety, and depression. The research team monitors these outcomes at 8 weeks to evaluate the impact of the interventions. Participation involves online access and interaction with the intervention materials and questionnaires over the study period.

Resilience-Building for Advance Care Planning