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DISCO: A Patient Intervention to Reduce the Financial Burden of Cancer

NCT04766190 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 260

Last updated 2025-05-25

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Summary

The DISCO App is designed to improve, during the interaction, patient active participation and patient-initiated oncologist treatment cost discussions, and, in the short term, patient's treatment cost knowledge, self-efficacy for managing both cost and physician interactions, referrals, perceived financial toxicity (i.e., distress and material hardship); in turn, these will affect longer-term outcomes of financial toxicity and adherence.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group 2: The DISCO App

Patients will receive an individually-tailorable cancer treatment cost education and communication intervention delivered on an iPad just prior to meeting with their oncologist.

BEHAVIORAL

Group 1: Usual Care

Patients randomized to this arm will receive usual care.

BEHAVIORAL

Group 3: The DISCO App + Booster

Patients will receive an individually-tailorable cancer treatment cost education and communication intervention delivered on an iPad just prior to meeting with their oncologist. Then, 2 months later they will receive an intervention booster in the form of an individually-tailored email to remind patients of the contents of the intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lauren Hamel

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lauren Hamel, PhD · Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Insitute

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
2021-02-10
Primary Completion
2027-08-31
Completion
2028-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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