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Survey to Determine Incarcerated Persons Views on Surrogate Decision Making

NCT07751731 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 75000

Last updated 2026-08-11

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Summary

Background:

About 180 000 of the people in US prisons are over 55 years old. Aging people often cannot make medical decisions on their own. People who cannot make their own decisions must rely on a surrogate. A surrogate is someone who helps the person s doctor make decisions for them. Researchers want to conduct a survey to ask people in prison who they would like to be their surrogates. But first, they need to find out if their survey questions are clear and easy to understand.

Objective:

To get imprisoned people s feedback on survey questions about surrogate decision making.

Eligibility:

People currently imprisoned in a US facility with access to Edovo. They must be able to read and write in English.

Design:

Participants will answer 26 survey questions. The questions will be on the Edovo Learn software platform. After each question, they will be asked: Was this question clear? If not, please explain in the box below what you found unclear. Also, if you have any suggestions for how we might make the question clearer, please include them.

Participants will be asked to imagine themselves in a situation where they cannot make their own medical decisions. They may skip questions or stop the survey if they want. No information that identifies them will be collected.

The survey will take about 15 minutes.

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

OTHER

Survey

Tablet based survey

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • David Wendler, Ph.D. · National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
120 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-08-16
Primary Completion
2026-12-29
Completion
2027-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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