Decision Counseling Program in Increasing Shared Decision Making and Clinical Trial Participation in Patients With Stage 0-IV Lung Cancer (Free to Breathe)

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Other: Educational Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03820557

17G.352

Details and patient eligibility

About

This clinical trial studies how well the Decision Counseling Program works in increasing patient-physician shared decision making and participation in clinical trials for lung cancer patients. Decision aids help provide patients with information that may help them select a course of action related to their cancer care when more than one alternative is available. It also encourages shared decision making allowing patients and their providers to make health decisions together. Determining how patients make decisions about participating in a clinical trial may help doctors facilitate patient decision making and improve participation in lung cancer clinical trials.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Facilitate patient deliberation about participation in a lung cancer clinical trial using the Decision Counseling Program (DCP).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Document the extent to which patient values and preferences are incorporated into physician-patient shared decision making (SDM) about cancer clinical trials.

II. Assess changes in patient knowledge, anxiety, and decisional conflict related to clinical trial participation.

III. Characterize patient and physician experience with intervention exposure.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with lung cancer (Stages 0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Lung cancer patients for which there is an available interventional clinical trial open at Jefferson Kimmel Cancer Center
• Patients being treated by a lung medical oncologist on the Center City Campus of Thomas Jefferson University
• Able to provide informed consent
• English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to communicate in English
• Unable to provide informed consent
• Not eligible for an open, actively accruing interventional trial at Jefferson

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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44 participants in 1 patient group

Decision Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Patients undergo participation in the DCP prior to an audio-recorded oncology appointment.

Treatment:

Other: Educational Intervention