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Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening

NCT01168323 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 95

Last updated 2010-08-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Two memory research findings (the spacing and testing effects) can dramatically improve retention of learning, but they have largely have been ignored by educators. The researchers have developed a novel form of online education (termed 'spaced education') based on these two effects which has been shown in randomized trials to improve knowledge acquisition and boost learning retention. Using prostate cancer screening as an experimental system, the researchers investigated whether spaced education could durably improve clinicians' behaviors, not just their knowledge.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Online spaced education

Spaced education is currently delivered via periodic emails that contain clinical case scenarios and multiple-choice questions. Upon submitting answers to each question online, clinicians receive immediate feedback and educational material. The questions are then repeated over spaced intervals of time to harness the pedagogical benefits of the spacing effect.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • US Department of Veterans Affairs

    collaborator FED

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • American Urological Association

    collaborator OTHER

  • Astellas Pharma US, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Wyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Harvard University Faculty of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • B. Price Kerfoot, MD EdM · VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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