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Effects of Frequent Decision Making Among Patients With Serious Illnesses

NCT01722123 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2017-08-15

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Summary

Decision making capacity fatigues after repeated decisions similar to skeletal muscle. The result is decision fatigue, in which subsequent decisions are altered toward the status quo. Patients are at risk for decision fatigue yet it has not been studied. The Investigator proposes a randomized study in the outpatient setting in patients at high risk for needing to make complex decisions, in an effort to determine the impact of decision fatigue on participant self-control and subsequent choices.

Conditions

  • Chemotherapy

Interventions

OTHER

Hypothetical scenarios and related decisions

Patients are exposed to three hypothetical medical scenarios that require varying levels of decision making. We will be assessing how this experience alters their subsequent choice to forego life sustaining therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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