CHOICES: Understanding Clinical Trials as a Treatment Option

Kaiser Permanente

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Tailored Telephone Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00983866

CN-04CSomk-02-B

R01CA114543 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to determine whether having a telephone discussion with a nurse educator about making treatment decisions and participating in a clinical trial increases trial participation.

The investigators hypothesize that the participants in the intervention group will be more likely to take part in a clinical trial than those in the usual care group.

Enrollment: 1,376 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who are potentially eligible for one of the designated clinical trials on the basis of automated data from pathology reports and other databases

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who meet specific exclusion criteria for designated clinical trials

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,376 participants in 2 patient groups

Tailored Telephone Counseling

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tailored Telephone Counseling

Standard Trial Recruitment Procedures

No Intervention group