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Supporting Doctor-patient Communication in Oncology

NCT02278900 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2024-03-06

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Summary

Aims of study While various communication aids have been evaluated separately, no studies have taken a coordinated approach combining aids with different goals to evaluate their combined impact. In this study the investigators will use two communication aids; a QPL and an audio recording of the consultation. QPLs includes question concerning treatment options, but few studies involving QPLs have explored whether QPLs result in patients taking a more active role in the consultation. To our knowledge there have not been studies which objectively try to explore whether patients receiving QPLs participates in shared decision making to a greater extent, except for one ongoing Italian trial of breast cancer patients.

To explore and describe how communication aids as a QPL and an audio recording of the consultation improve the first doctor-patient consultation at the oncology outpatient clinic by

1. Encouraging patients/caregivers to ask more questions, particularly about sensitive topics such as prognosis (as an effect of QPL alone)
2. Increasing shared decision-making (as an effect of QPL alone)
3. Improving overall satisfaction with the consultation and information retrieved (as an effect of both communication aids)
4. Affecting quality of life/anxiety/depression (as an effect of both communication aids)

Conditions

  • Communication

Interventions

OTHER

Communication aids

Question Prompt list Audiofile

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital of North Norway

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tone Nordøy · UNN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2019-11-30
Completion
2019-12-02

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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