Developing an Online Clinical Trial Specific Question Prompt List

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: QPL-CT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02030379

MCC-14970

HM14970 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will leverage e-technologies to provide an online version of the Question Prompt LIst (QPL-CT), that patients access via available iPads, enabling both the real-time prioritizing of patient questions as well as the seamless delivery of these questions to their treating physician (and other members of their clinical team) via the VCU Health System (VCUHS) patient portal, and the electronic medical record (EMR) prior to a consultation to discuss a clinical trial

Full description

The investigators propose to conduct pilot work to inform our knowledge of optimal methods of utilizing QPLs and will use the QPL-CT as an example. The investigators will leverage e-technologies to provide an online version of the QPL-CT, that patients access via available iPads, enabling both the real-time prioritizing of patient questions as well as the seamless delivery of these questions to their treating physician (and other members of their clinical team) via the VCU Health System (VCUHS) patient portal, and the EMR prior to a consultation to discuss a clinical trial. The investigators will use a pilot randomized clinical trial design to demonstrate the efficacy of the online QPL-CT versus a paper and pencil QPL-CT to increase question asking, patient understanding of trial information and reduce patients conflict over their upcoming decision to join a trial

Enrollment: 8 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cancer diagnosis
• Fluent in English
• eligible for a therapeutic clinical trial
• Patients of recruited oncologists

Exclusion criteria

• Healthy subjects
• Not eligible for a therapeutic clinical trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8 participants in 3 patient groups

Online QPL-CT to Oncologist

Experimental group

Description:

Use the online QPL-CT to prioritize their questions and the prioritized list will be conveyed to their oncologist

Treatment:

Behavioral: QPL-CT

Online QPL-CT

Experimental group

Description:

Use the online QPL-CT to prioritize their questions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: QPL-CT

Pencil and Paper QPL-CT

Experimental group

Description:

Use pencil and paper QPL-CT to prioritize their questions

Treatment:

Behavioral: QPL-CT