About this trial
The purpose of the study is to develop a culturally tailored digital resilience-building intervention to help East Asian immigrants engage in advance care planning discussions with their family caregivers.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Age ≥ 18 years
Serving as a chaplain or religious leader at a healthcare setting or religious organization
Having experience providing pastoral or spiritual care to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans in the US
Being able to read and respond to questions in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, or Korean.
Disqualifiers
Age ≥ 18 years
Having a cancer diagnosis
Likely self-identifying as a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean American/immigrant
Being able to read and respond to questions in either English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese dialects, such as Cantonese, Shanghai, Taishanese, or Taiwanese.
Trial population
Religious leaders providing spiritual care to Asian Americans/immigrants or Asian Americans/immigrants living with cancer
Trial design
Case-only
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Culturally Tailored Digital Resilience-Building
BehavioralThe Culturally Tailored Digital Resilience-Building materials include an introduction to advance care planning and resilience skills that specifically address cultural beliefs and barriers.
Semi-structured interviews
BehavioralSemi-structured interviews with religious leaders who provide spiritual care to Asian Americans/immigrants.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Usability
Use the System Usability Scale (range: 0-100) to assess the usability of the intervention. Higher scores indicate greater perceived usability by users.
Secondary outcomes
Acceptability
Use the Acceptability E-scale to assess the acceptability of the intervention. Scale total scores range from 6 to 30, and higher scores indicate greater acceptance for the proposed intervention.
Other outcomes
Religious leaders experience
An in-depth understanding of religious leaders' perspectives on barriers and facilitators to discussing death-related topics with immigrants from East Asia.
Sponsors and contacts
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University of Illinois at Chicago
Lead sponsor
Rockefeller University
Collaborator