Measuring and Displaying the Subjective

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physician-Patient Relations; Communication Research

Treatments: Behavioral: Relevant Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs); Other: My Whole Health Map

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06490224

PROM Prototyping

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators developed a brief set of subjective health measures designed to feel more relevant to patients seeking musculoskeletal specialty care, presented the scores to patients and clinicians using an easy-to-understand visual display, and measured whether or not this process harmed patient experience.

Full description

Musculoskeletal patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs; measures of levels of discomfort and incapability) were originally designed as tools for clinical research as were other self-reported measures of the subjective aspects of illness such as mental health measures. PROMs and mental health measures are increasingly used in clinical practice with individual patients. A few areas for improvement are noted in the use of questionnaires in musculoskeletal specialty care, including relevancy, understandability, and their confusing use in heath strategies. The investigators sought to assess the impact of an enhanced and more personalized self-reported health measurement strategy to address some of these opportunities by developing a brief set of items addressing levels of discomfort, incapability, mental, and social health designed to feel relevant to musculoskeletal specialty care and resulting in an easy-to-understand display that can be a communication tool for patients and clinicians.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All new and return patients
• English and Spanish speakers

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive deficiency precluding PROM completion
• Language other than English or Spanish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Usual patient reported outcome measures

Treatment:

Behavioral: Relevant Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Usual patient reported outcome measures + new visual display of responses to subjective health questions

Treatment:

Other: My Whole Health Map

Behavioral: Relevant Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)