What this means
This is a plan to train clinicians using community storytelling videos, cultural guidelines, and bias training. It has not reported results, so it does not show whether the training works.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- See eligibility
- Where
- 2 sites, including Alabama, New York
The science
- Registered title
- African Americans (AA) Communities Speak
- Trial ID
- NCT05908487 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Healthy Aging, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Social Responsibility, Care Eliciting Behavior, Racism, Systemic
- What is tested
- AA Communities Speak to Healthcare Professionals
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Ages
- No minimum to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Jun 18, 2023 · updated May 7, 2026
Registry summary
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.
Sites (2)
- UAB, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Albert Einstein/Montefiore, The Bronx, New York, United States