Impact of Anticipated Regret Incorporation Into Patient Decision Aids

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Regret

Treatments: Other: Standard Decision Aid; Other: Post-surgical Regret Decision Aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02563808

817436

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of incorporating "anticipated regret " into standard patient decision aids. Participants in the Wharton Behavioral Lab will be administered a standard patient decision aid and an "anticipated regret" augmented decision aid. Participants will complete a computerized survey about their experiences with each version, and their answers will be assessed for potential differences associated with the incorporation of "Anticipated Regret."

Full description

Participants will be recruited through the Wharton Behavioral Lab. Upon arrival males will be provided with two decision aids focusing on prostate cancer, while females will be provided with two decision aids focusing on early breast cancer. One of these decision aids will be a standard version, and one of these will be the anticipated regret-augmented version. Participants will be randomized to which version they receive first to minimize the effect of presentation order. After reviewing the materials, participants will immediately complete a computerized survey at their work stations that will ask them to answer questions based on the materials presented as well as how any hypothetical treatment decisions they would be asked to make would have been influenced by them. Because these are healthy subjects participating in a hypothetical decision-making process for sole purpose of research, the intervention can neither be categorized as experimental or as the standard of care.

Enrollment: 189 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy females ages 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• Under age 18 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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189 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard Decision Aid

Active Comparator group

Description:

The brochure with standard information on surgery for early-stage breast cancer

Treatment:

Other: Standard Decision Aid

Post-surgical Regret Decision Aid

Experimental group

Description:

The brochure that incorporates additional information on the rates of regret after surgical treatment of early-stage breast cancer.

Treatment:

Other: Post-surgical Regret Decision Aid