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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Using Video Images in Dementia

NCT00704886 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2009-06-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

BACKGROUND: Advance care planning (ACP) is the process in which patients plan for future medical care under circumstances of impaired decision-making. Video is an underutilized medium that can assist clinicians in discussions of future health states, such as the state of advanced dementia. Video may enable patients to visualize the future by concisely providing complex information vital for ACP. This study will examine whether the use of video could facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of advanced dementia and inform clinician-patient discussions about the level of care a patient would want in the event of advanced dementia.

RESEARCH PLAN: We propose to conduct a randomized trial studying ACP for 200 elderly subjects using a video depiction of a patient with dementia compared to the traditional verbal narrative. Specific aims 1 and 2 assess the effect of a video of advanced dementia on the clinical decision making of elderly subjects compared to the traditional verbal narrative.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

video

video of dementia

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making

    collaborator OTHER

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Angelo Volandes, MD · MGH

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-09-30
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2008-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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