Visually Enhanced Education About Prostate Cancer

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stage II Prostate Cancer; Stage I Prostate Cancer; Stage III Prostate Cancer

Treatments: Other: Standard prostate cancer education presentation; Other: Visually enhanced prostate cancer educational presentation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02846870

NCI-2016-00777 (Registry Identifier)

VICC RAD 1646

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized clinical trial studies how well visually enhanced education works in improving prostate cancer and treatment knowledge in patients with prostate cancer that has not spread to other places in the body. Visually enhanced education includes pictures, drawings, and photos, may help doctors better convey information about radiation and prostate cancer to patients.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Our goal is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to determine the impact of a visual presentation in the context of a radiation oncologist's discussion with patient during consultation on patient satisfaction at end of consultation visit and at end of treatment, on anxiety at start of treatment, on decision regret following treatment, and on perception of side effects following treatment. Of note, the attending radiation oncologist will be responsible for reviewing the Powerpoint presentation with the patient, taking time to answer any questions that the patient has

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized into 1 of 2 arms.

ARM A (STANDARD EDUCATION): Patients receive a standard prostate cancer radiation oncology consultation.

ARM B (VISUAL ENHANCED EDUCATION): Patients receive a visually enhanced prostate cancer educational Powerpoint presentation including prostate anatomy, pathologic results, surgical options, radiation therapy, and prognosis with pictographs during radiation oncology consultation.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient must have non-metastatic, biopsy proven prostate cancer
• Must be referred to radiation oncology clinic

Exclusion criteria

• Prior surgery or radiation therapy for prostate cancer
• Patients who are blind are excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients receive standard-of-care prostate cancer radiation oncology consultation.

Treatment:

Other: Standard prostate cancer education presentation

Visually Enhanced Education

Experimental group

Description:

Patients receive a visually enhanced prostate cancer educational Powerpoint presentation including prostate anatomy, pathologic results, surgical options, radiation therapy, and prognosis with pictographs during radiation oncology consultation.

Treatment:

Other: Visually enhanced prostate cancer educational presentation