Connecting People With Cancer to Employment Support

Implementing Pathways to Identify and Address Employment Concerns Among People With Cancer Across Diverse Clinical Settings

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a clinical workflow that screens adult patients with cancer for challenges at work and refers them to supportive resources is feasible, appropriate, and acceptable to patients and staff members in 2 cancer care settings. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is the clinical workflow feasible and acceptable to participants? Are study procedures feasible and acceptable to participants?

Patient participants will complete 2 surveys: 1 at the time of enrollment and 1 six months later.

Investigators will conduct a prospective single-arm study at 2 sites to pilot and iteratively adapt a clinical workflow intervention, implementation strategies, and associated study procedures. Investigators will implement the clinical workflow intervention across each study site, then recruit consecutive patients (n=50) to complete patient-reported measures at 2 time points (T1: enrollment; T2: 6-month follow-up. Investigators will recruit staff members (n=20) to complete survey measures at 2 time points (T1: beginning of pilot study period; T2: end of pilot study period).

Eligible Patients:

• visiting a participating medical or radiation oncology clinic for new diagnosis, treatment, or follow-up of any type of cancer;
• employed at the time of cancer diagnosis;
• age 18 or older;
• able to give full informed consent;
• able to communicate in English or Spanish.

Eligible Staff:

• age 18 or older;
• employed at one of the participating clinical sites.