Online Field Test of an Appendicitis Decision Support Tool

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: Appendicitis Acute

Treatments: Behavioral: Control Infographic; Behavioral: Appendicitis Decision Support Tool

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05219786

STUDY00012210

Details and patient eligibility

About

After the recent publication of the CODA Trial comparing antibiotics and surgery for acute appendicitis, the investigators developed a comprehensive decision support tool. This tool will help patients understand the risks and benefits of each treatment and make a treatment decision. This study is an online randomized field test comparing the decision support tool to a control infographic and assessing it's affect on decisional outcomes, such as decisional conflict.

Enrollment: 194 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: who live in the United States and who have not previously had appendicitis.

• Workers on Amazons Mechanical Turk Platform with an approval rating of 95% or higher
• Workers on Amazons Mechanical Turk Platform who live in the United States
• Workers on Amazons Mechanical Turn Platform who have not previously had appendicitis

Exclusion Criteria:

• Employees or relatives of employees of the University of Washington

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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194 participants in 2 patient groups

Decision Support Tool

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm study participants saw a decision support tool consisting of a video and a interactive decision aid (www.appyornot.org).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Appendicitis Decision Support Tool

Infographic

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participant saw a static infographic providing information about the two treatments for appendicitis.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control Infographic