Increasing Shared Decision Making and Patient Participation in Lung Cancer Clinical Trials (Free to Breathe)
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer
- Sponsor
- Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
- Enrollment
- 44
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Patient perception related to clinical trials participation, measured by follow up survey questions
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This clinical trial studies how well the Decision Counseling Program works in increasing patient-physician shared decision making and participation in clinical trials for lung cancer patients. Decision aids help provide patients with information that may help them select a course of action related to their cancer care when more than one alternative is available. It also encourages shared decision making allowing patients and their providers to make health decisions together. Determining how patients make decisions about participating in a clinical trial may help doctors facilitate patient decision making and improve participation in lung cancer clinical trials.
Detailed Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Facilitate patient deliberation about participation in a lung cancer clinical trial using the Decision Counseling Program (DCP). SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. Document the extent to which patient values and preferences are incorporated into physician-patient shared decision making (SDM) about cancer clinical trials. II. Assess changes in patient knowledge, anxiety, and decisional conflict related to clinical trial participation. III. Characterize patient and physician experience with intervention exposure.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients diagnosed with lung cancer (Stages 0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
- •Lung cancer patients for which there is an available interventional clinical trial open at Jefferson Kimmel Cancer Center
- •Patients being treated by a lung medical oncologist on the Center City Campus of Thomas Jefferson University
- •Able to provide informed consent
- •English-speaking
Exclusion Criteria
- •Inability to communicate in English
- •Unable to provide informed consent
- •Not eligible for an open, actively accruing interventional trial at Jefferson
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Patient perception related to clinical trials participation, measured by follow up survey questions
Time Frame: Baseline to 30 days
Will compute descriptive statistics for all sections and determine the variables on which to compare patient responses at the two time points (baseline and endpoint) using paired t-tests.