Message: Study of Patients' Perception of Physician's Compassion

Advanced Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Trial on Patient's Evaluation of a Physician Conveying Two Different Messages

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02357108
• Other study ID #: 2012-0113
• Secondary ID: NCI-2015-01419
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 29, 2015
• Last updated: July 14, 2016
• Start date: May 2013
• Est. completion date: August 2015

Study information

• Verified date: July 2016
• Source: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to learn what types of conversations patients prefer to have with their doctor about treatment options and how patients view their doctor's compassion.

Description:

If participant agree to take part in the study, basic information will be collected (such as date of birth, date of diagnosis, sex, and religion). Participant will also complete questionnaires about any symptoms they may be having, how hopeful they are, how they are accepting the disease, their trust in the medical profession, and how they like information to be delivered to them.

After completing the questionnaires, they will be randomly assigned (as the roll of dice) to one of 4 groups.

Regardless of which group they are in, they will watch 2 short videos that show actors portraying a doctor and patient having a conversation about treatment options in a clinical setting. Both videos will discuss the same material, but the order of the videos and the actors in the videos will be different for each group. Both videos are about 4 minutes long.

After watching each video, the participant will complete 3 questionnaires about the doctor in the video. It should take about 38 minutes to watch both videos and to complete all of the questionnaires.

After they have watched both videos, they will be asked to choose which doctor they preferred and to briefly explain the reasons why they chose that doctor.

Length of Study:

Participant will be off study after they have completed the last questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 103
• Est. completion date: August 2015
• Est. primary completion date: August 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Diagnosis of advanced cancer, defined as locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic disease

2. Patients treated as outpatients by the Supportive and Palliative Care team.

3. Age >/= 18 years-old

4. English speaking

5. Normal cognitive status as determined by the interviewer based on the ability to understand the nature of the study and consent process.

Exclusion Criteria:

1) Patients suffering from a severe psychiatric disorder or condition that would significantly interfere with study participation, as determined by the Principal Investigator or by the attending palliative care physician.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Advanced Cancer

Intervention

Other:
• Video
Watch two short videos with a 4-minute interval between the two of them, estimate 8 minutes to watch both the videos.

Behavioral:
• Survey
One set of surveys before first video and one set after each video played, estimate total of 30 minutes for all surveys.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	Houston	Texas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Participant's Rating of Physician's Compassion	Physician compassion tested using compassion data from the first video viewed by each patient as assessed by a Physician Compassion Assessment survey. Patient's rating of physician's compassion by using a 5-item tool consisting of five 0-10 numerical rating scales assessing five dimensions: warm-cold, pleasant-unpleasant, compassionate-distant, sensitive insensitive, caring-uncaring. The sum of the five scales will give a final score representing physician's compassion with a 0 to 50 scale.	Approximately 38 minutes for video viewing and surveys.	No

External Links

•   University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Official Website