Patient Recall of Cancer Screening and Diagnosis

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Prostate Cancer; Breast Cancer
• Interventions: Other: Accessing personal medical records online via online portals

• Registration Number: NCT05014295
• Lead Sponsor: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research is to try to better understand how much information relating to cancer screening and diagnoses that people can recall on their own and to better understand how to help people get better information. In this study, investigators will see if giving time or other resources help individuals remember more and more accurate details about their cancer screening and care.

Detailed Description

This is a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to encourage use of online medical records for filling out a cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment questionnaire. Participants will be asked to self-report on cancer screening and treatment. They will then be asked the same questions again a week later.

The control group will have had one week to reflect on the questions, and investigators anticipate some influence of this on responses. The intervention group will be prompted about accessing their medical records from the major local health systems online, with links to directions provided by each hospital system. They will then be asked to fill out the same questionnaire.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-06-22
• Study First Submitted: 2021-08-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-08-13
• Study First Posted: 2021-08-20
• Status Verified: 2025-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-01-06
• Last Update Posted: 2025-01-07
• Primary Completion: 2025-12
• Study Completion: 2026-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• diagnosed with breast or prostate cancer within the last 10 years
• have access to the internet with a working email address
• reside in Northeast Ohio

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention Group	Accessing personal medical records online via online portals	The intervention group will be prompted about accessing their medical records from the major local health systems online, with links to directions provided by each hospital system. They will then be asked to fill out the same questionnaire.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Completeness of survey	at 1 week (after second survey completed)	Completeness: For each survey, for each participant, investigators will count the number of "don't know" response rates. From this, investigators will calculate the percent completeness of the survey.
Accuracy of survey	at 1 week (after second survey completed)	Investigators will assess the inter-rater reliability between the first and second survey by calculating a Cohen's Kappa coefficient. Although not a perfect assumption, investigators will use the second survey as the reference. Number of changed answers on an individual level will be calculated, representing improved accuracy. Investigators do not anticipate many changes, and, again, this will not be normally distributed.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Cleveland, Ohio, United States