A Palliative Care Patient Navigator and Counseling Intervention for Latinos with Stage III/IV Cancer (S807)

Latinos with advanced cancer are unlikely to access palliative care and can have high distress. To address this, we adapted and combined two successful interventions, a patient navigator and a counseling intervention. In prior work, the patient navigator intervention increased advance care planning for Latinos, and the counseling intervention reduced depression in a general population using behavioral activation and interpersonal psychotherapy.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 23, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: David Bekelman, Regina Fink, Evelinn Borrayo, Danielle Kline, Timothy Sannes, Stacy Fischer Source Type: research