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Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening

H

Harvard University Faculty of Medicine

Status

Completed

Conditions

Prostate Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: Online spaced education

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
Industry
Other U.S. Federal agency
NIH

Identifiers

NCT01168323
5K08HS017147 (U.S. AHRQ Grant/Contract)
M15310
IRB# 1786 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Two memory research findings (the spacing and testing effects) can dramatically improve retention of learning, but they have largely have been ignored by educators. The researchers have developed a novel form of online education (termed 'spaced education') based on these two effects which has been shown in randomized trials to improve knowledge acquisition and boost learning retention. Using prostate cancer screening as an experimental system, the researchers investigated whether spaced education could durably improve clinicians' behaviors, not just their knowledge.

Enrollment

95 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) from the 8 Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in the New England region (Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 [VISN-1]) were eligible to enroll.

Exclusion criteria

  • Primary care providers (PCPs) who ordered PSA as a screen for prostate cancer less than 10 times each year were excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

95 participants in 2 patient groups

Spaced education clinicians - cohort 1
Experimental group
Description:
Spaced education clinicians receive four isomorphic cycles of 9 spaced education emails over 36-weeks (0-2 emails per week). Each email contained one question-explanation.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Online spaced education
Control clinicians - cohort 2
No Intervention group
Description:
Control clinicians received no intervention

Trial contacts and locations

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