Telementoring Intervention (ECHO) for the Transformation of Professional Engagement, Practice Efficiency, and Community Building Through Team Meetings in Diagnostic Imaging Clinicians

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm; Malignant Solid Neoplasm

Treatments: Other: Communication Intervention; Other: Questionnaire Administration; Other: Waiting List

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04196972

2019-0639 (Other Identifier)

NCI-2019-07565 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial studies how well the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) telementoring intervention works in transforming professional engagement, practice efficiency, and community building through team meetings in diagnostic imaging clinicians. This study may help researchers learn more about the potential benefits of a model for team meetings aimed at bringing physicians together from multiple practice locations when few opportunities exist for meaningful, collegial interactions. It may also help diagnostic imaging clinicians engage more effectively with colleagues at distant sites and become more engaged with their work.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine the feasibility of the proposed anti-burnout intervention for faculty at MD Anderson, defined as at least 35/50 of participants each attending at least 9 out of 13 sessions.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To explore any changes in burnout, measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Mini-Z surveys.

II. To explore any changes in the self-reported health status of participants, as measured by the RAND Short-Form 36 (SF36) survey.

III. To understand participants' perception of the benefits and usefulness of the intervention, measured by the customized Globalized Perception/Impression of Benefits Survey.

IV. To define methods for improving the intervention, based on participants' feedback following each session.

OUTLINE: Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.

ARM A: Participants attend ECHO telementoring sessions over 1 hour weekly for 13 weeks.

ARM B: Participants are placed on a wait-list for 13 weeks and then attend ECHO telementoring sessions over 1 hour weekly for 13 weeks.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Faculty must be diagnostic imaging clinicians with a primary appointment in the Division of Diagnostic Imaging at MD Anderson

Exclusion criteria

• Faculty that have an official leadership role (Division Head or Department Chair)
• Faculty that have previously participated in any previous live ECHO clinic or ECHO activity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm A (ECHO telementoring)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants attend ECHO telementoring sessions over 1 hour weekly for 13 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Other: Communication Intervention

Arm B (wait-list, ECHO telementoring)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are placed on a wait-list for 13 weeks and then attend ECHO telementoring sessions over 1 hour weekly for 13 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Waiting List

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Other: Communication Intervention