Space and Interaction Trial: Room Design and Patient-physician Interaction (SIT)

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Participating Staff; Internal Medicine Patients

Treatments: Other: Re-designed room; Other: Control room

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00806559

07-000135

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to improve the clinical encounter through the design of the clinical environment. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to measure the extent to which a newly designed clinical room, compared to a traditional room, affects the patient-physician interaction. We will judge this outcome by (a) videotaping encounters; and (b) conducting post-visit surveys with patients and an interview with physicians. We will use both qualitative and quantitative tools, including a validated and widely used interaction coding system on the videotapes, to draw inferences from these data.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Eligible Clinicians:

1. In the Department of GIM or Preventive Medicine
2. Able and Willing to participate in research study.

Eligible patients:

1. Patient of a clinician participating in the study
2. 18 years or older
3. Seeing clinician for return/summary visit.

Exclusion Criteria:

1.) Not able to give informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual room

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in this arm will see their clinician in the usual clinical exam room

Treatment:

Other: Control room

Re-designed room

Experimental group

Description:

Patients assigned to this arm will see the physician in a redesigned clinical exam room

Treatment:

Other: Re-designed room