Evaluation of DVD and Internet Decision Aids for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis: Focus on Health Literacy
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Osteoarthritis
- Sponsor
- Duke University
- Enrollment
- 155
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in Decision Self-Efficacy Scale a Baseline to post.
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 11 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to advance the evidence base regarding methods for facilitating informed decisions among patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis by comparing DVD and online formats of decision aids for these conditions. The project will assess how these different formats impact key outcomes including: patient knowledge about treatment options, decisional conflict, preparation for decision making, decision self-efficacy, stage of decision making, and acceptability and usability of the decision aids.
Detailed Description
Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common chronic conditions and a leading cause of pain and disability. Many patients with OA know very little about treatment options and are not well equipped to make informed decisions regarding these treatments. Further, there are racial and gender disparities in perceptions of the risks and benefits of total joint replacement, which also highlights the need to improve facilitation of informed treatment choices in these patients. Decision aids have great potential to improve patient satisfaction, safety, and outcomes for patients with OA, but there is no evidence base regarding best formats for delivering this information. This project will compare patient decision-making outcomes immediately following viewing of DVD and web-based versions of the Health Dialog DAs for hip and knee OA, as well as three days and one month later. Patients with symptomatic knee and hip OA (n=200) will be enrolled from a primary care and orthopedic clinics. Participants will be randomized, with stratification according to health literacy level, to view the DVD or web-based DA. Outcomes will include: Knowledge about OA and Treatments, Decisional Conflict, Preparation for Decision-Making, Decision Self-Efficacy, Stage of Decision Making, Acceptability and Usability of the DA, and home use of the DA. This project will make a novel contribution with direct clinical applicability, providing information regarding best methods for disseminating tools to enhance informed decision-making among patients with hip and knee OA, with particular attention to patients with low literacy.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Clinician diagnosis of knee/hip OA, based on radiographic evidence in Duke medical records.
- •Moderate or worse current joint symptoms, assessed at telephone screening using standard items.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, or other systemic rheumatic disease.
- •Active diagnosis of psychosis or dementia, or other cognitive impairment.
- •Severe hearing or visual impairment that would prohibit effective use of the DAs.
- •Planning, scheduled for or on a wait list for joint replacement surgery.
- •Had a prior hip or knee joint replacement surgery.
- •Inability to read English, since the DAs are in English.
- •Current participation in another OA interventional study.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in Decision Self-Efficacy Scale a Baseline to post.
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 hour
This is an 11-item scale that measures patients' confidence in completing various tasks related to the decision-making processes, such as getting facts about risks and benefits, asking questions, and expressing concerns. All items are measured on a scale of 0 (not confident at all) to 4 (very confident).
Change in the Facts about Osteoarthritis section of the Decision Quality Instrument - Knee Osteoarthritis (DQI-KOA; © Massachusetts General Hospital, 2010 46) at 30 days.
Time Frame: Baseline and 30 days
Change in Decisional Conflict Scale at 30 days post.
Time Frame: Baseline and 30 days
Change in the Facts about Osteoarthritis section of the Decision Quality Instrument - Knee Osteoarthritis (DQI-KOA; © Massachusetts General Hospital, 2010 46) at Baseline to post.
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 hour
Knowledge is a key outcome in this study because it is fundamental to informed decision making process 45. We will use the "Facts about Osteoarthritis" section of the Decision Quality Instrument - Knee Osteoarthritis (DQI-KOA; © Massachusetts General Hospital, 2010 46), which includes 8 items that assess knowledge about the knee OA and its treatment options (behavioral, pharmacological, and surgical). Although this instrument was developed for knee OA, the items are also appropriate for hip OA, and it will be used for both groups.
Change in Decisional Conflict Scale at Baseline to post.
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 hour
We will use the Low Literacy version of this scale, which includes 10 items with 3 response categories (yes, no, unsure), across four subscales: Informed (do patients know the different options, benefits, and risks?), Values Clarity (are patients clear about which benefits and risk matter most to them?), Support (do patients have support and advice to make a choice?), and Uncertainty (are patients clear or sure about what to choose?).
Secondary Outcomes
- Measurement of the Acceptability and Usability Scale post viewing of the DAs.(Up to 1 hour)
- Semi-Structured Interviews(Up to 1 hour)
- Time spent viewing different parts of the internet-based DA(Up to 1 hour)