Impact of on-demand training & audio-visual aids to improve referral rates for genetic counselling and/ testing at a tertiary cancer centre
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 1,500
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Primary Objective (Patients):
研究概览
简要总结
This study will help to design audio-visual aids, educational videos and patient information leaflets for improving patient awareness. As a part of this study, we would also develop a mobile application for physicians that provides basic information on genetic counselling, indications for testing and syndrome specific clinical characteristics which will allow physicians to identify patients who may have a predisposition to hereditary cancers especially in the absence of a family history.
The aim of this study is to improve the rate and the quality of referrals to the cancer genetic clinic at the Tata Memorial Centre. To improve the patient referrals, we would have to improve the awareness levels among both the patient and the physicians to improve the referral rates and their quality. Since we plan to use different interventions for the patients and the physicians, we would conduct them as 2 parallel sub-studies with different objectives and endpoints. Both these studies ultimately would converge to fulfil the aim of the study i.e., to improve the referral rates to the cancer genetics clinic at the Tata Memorial Centre. We would like to evaluate if such interventions help us to improve the rate and quality of referrals to the cancer genetics clinic at the Tata Memorial Centre.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Not Applicable
- 盲法
- Not Applicable
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18.00 Year(s) 至 99.99 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Inclusion Criteria (Patients/ Caregivers)
- •Patients and or their caregivers from the breast, gynecology, pediatric, central nervous system and colorectal disease management group who are ≥18 years of age and willing to participate in the study
- •Parents or caregivers of the pediatric patients
- •Can read at least 1 language in which the written informed consent and pamphlets are provided
- •Patients who have a confirmed diagnosis of cancer OR healthy individuals who are suspected or known carriers of a pathogenic variant in a cancer predisposing gene
- •Patients who can understand the language in which the survey is conducted and in which the information is provided in the pamphlets and/ the audio-visual aids Inclusion criteria (Physicians):
- •All physicians participating in the care of cancer patients and willing to consent for participation in the study and
- •All those that agree to allow access to their background analytics data and
- •Working at the Tata Memorial Centre.
排除标准
- •Exclusion Criteria (Patient/ Caregivers):
- •Those who have a life expectancy of ≤3 months
- •Pediatric patients younger than 18 years of age
- •Those who cannot understand written or spoken language in which the survey is served and the information is provided.
- •Those who cannot read the languages in which the pamphlets are provided.
- •Exclusion Criteria (Physicians):
- •Those who do not permit access to their background analytics data.
结局指标
主要结局
Primary Objective (Patients):
时间窗: Baseline will be recorded 3 months prior to the intervention and )providing educational material) and for 3 months after providing the intervention (educational material)
1. Determine the impact of audio-visual aids and pamphlets on the awareness, attitudes and expectation of the patients
时间窗: Baseline will be recorded 3 months prior to the intervention and )providing educational material) and for 3 months after providing the intervention (educational material)
Primary objective (Physicians):
时间窗: Baseline will be recorded 3 months prior to the intervention and )providing educational material) and for 3 months after providing the intervention (educational material)
1. Evaluate the impact of the cancer genetics training module on the referral rates and patterns of referrals to the cancer genetics clinic at the Tata Memorial Centre for 3 months after the planned intervention
时间窗: Baseline will be recorded 3 months prior to the intervention and )providing educational material) and for 3 months after providing the intervention (educational material)
次要结局
- Secondary objective (Patients):(1. Develop the audio-visual aids and pamphlets in Hindi, English, Marathi the commonly spoken languages for patients at TMC)