Palliative Care in People Living With HIV/AIDS: Integrating Into Standard of Care (FACE)
HIV
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for HIV focused on measuring palliative care, HIV/AIDS, quality of life, adherence, spiritual, threat appraisal, treatment congruence, treatment preferences, dialysis, hospitalization, communication, family intervention, Family Centered Advance Care Planning, decision making, advance care planning, end of life
Eligibility Criteria
Patient Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV positive outpatients or inpatients with detectable viral load (>200 copies) twice in the past 1 year period OR CD4 count <200 OR with a co-morbidity that may significantly limit life expectancy, including malignancy, cirrhosis, cardiomyopathy, etc.
- Patients with AIDS receiving dialysis, inpatients or outpatients
- Patients not in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Age 21 years or older
- All ethnic groups
- Male or female
- Knows his/her HIV status
- English speaking
- Absence of active psychosis or homicidal or suicidal ideation, determined at baseline screening by a trained research assistant as assessed by questions from a structured questionnaire
- Absence of HIV dementia, determined at screening using the HIV Dementia Scale cut off score of <10
- No evidence of developmental delay
- Consent from surrogate
- Consent from persons living with AIDS (PLWA) aged 21 or older
Surrogate Decision-maker inclusion criteria:
- Selected by patient
- Age 18 or older
- Willingness to discuss problems related to HIV and End Of Life (EOL)
- Absence of active psychosis, homicidal ideation, or suicidal ideation determined at baseline screening by trained RA
- Absence of HIV dementia, determined at screening using the HIV Dementia Scale cut off score of <10
- English speaking
- Consent to participate
- Knows HIV status of patient
Patient Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients in the ICU
- Age under 21 years old
- Patient unaware of HIV status
- Active psychosis or homicidal or suicidal ideation, determined at baseline screening by a trained research assistant as assessed by questions from a structured questionnaire
- Presence fo HIV Dementia at baseline
- Developmental delay
- Unable to find willing consented surrogate
Surrogate Decision-maker Exclusion Criteria:
- Surrogate under age of 18 years old
- Unwilling to discuss problems related to HIV and EOL
- Active psychosis or homicidal or suicidal ideation, determined at baseline screening by a trained research assistant as assessed by questions from a structured questionnaire
- Not an English speaker
- Unwilling to consent to participate and does not know HIV status of patient
Sites / Locations
- Georgetown University Hospital
- Children's National Medical Center
- Institute for Clinical Research, Inc. (Affiliated with Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Washington, DC)
- MedStar Health Research Institute/Washington Hospital Center
- George Washington University
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Healthy Living Control
FAmily-CEntered Advance Care Planning
Two-60 to 90 minute sessions scheduled one week apart. Session 1: Developmental History: Goal: To take a non-medical developmental history. The Research Assistant (RA)-Control will conduct the session in a structured interview format. Administered with all medical questions removed to prevent any risk of contamination with the experimental condition. Session 2: Nutrition and Exercise: Assess nutritional status and provide advice for maintaining optimal nutrition to boost immune functioning. Administered by the RA Control and will be videotaped to control for what occurs in the FACE intervention.
Two-60 to 90 minute sessions scheduled one week apart. Session 1: Respecting Choices Interview (R)to facilitate conversations and shared decision-making between the patient and surrogate about palliative care & prepare the surrogate to be able to fully represent the patient's wishes. Session 2: Five Wishes (C). Patient selects which person the patient wants to make health care decisions for him/her; the kind of medical treatment the patient wants; how comfortable the patient wants to be; how the patient wants people to treat him/her; what patient wants loved ones to know; and any spiritual or religious concerns the patient may have.