Study of a Rapid Triadic Communication Intention Elicitation Intervention to Improve Supportive Oncology Care Delivery (PRECursOr)

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Uterine Cancer; Vulvar Cancer; Vaginal Cancer; Ovarian Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention group triads

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05995860

CTO-IUSCCC-0827

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to help test an idea designed to foster more supportive talk between providers (doctors or nurse practitioners), patients, and caregivers during an outpatient oncology appointment. A caregiver is the person the patient identifies is primarily involved in their healthcare. This study is collecting your reaction to this idea in order to understand needed changes before we introduce the idea to a larger group of patients.

Full description

This pilot study focuses on an intervention (freelisting) designed to elicit supportive oncology communication intentions among the patient-caregiver-provider triad prior to an outpatient oncology encounter. The goal is to shape communication behaviors during the encounter to improve outcomes of the encounter.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients will:

  1. be adult women with an incurable gynecologic cancer (i.e., evidence of refractory/progressive disease after first-line treatment or recurrent disease),
  2. not be receiving specialty palliative care or hospice,
  3. read/speak English, and
  4. be able to provide written informed consent.

• caregivers will:

  1. identify as the individual who is primarily involved in the patient's care,
  2. be able to attend the oncology encounter,
  3. read/speak English, and
  4. be able to provide written informed consent.

• providers will:

  1. specialize in gynecologic oncology, and
  2. provide outpatient care at IUSCCC gynecologic oncology clinic.

Exclusion criteria

patients and/or caregivers will be excluded if either one or both demonstrate:

1. cognitive impairment, or
2. speech/hearing difficulties precluding participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group triads

No Intervention group

Intervention group triads

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention group triads