Physician-Patient Communication About Breast Cancer-Related Internet Information and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Anxiety
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Breast Cancer
- Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Enrollment
- 85
- Locations
- 3
- Primary Endpoint
- To examine the effect of physician responses to cancer-related internet information on patient satisfaction and anxiety. (Category 1 patients).
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 11 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to learn about how patients who have looked up cancer-related information on the internet talk with their doctors. We are interested in these conversations even if the patients do not think they will talk about the information with their doctor during their visit. We will audio record doctor-patient visits and listen to these recordings to learn about how patients who have looked up cancer-related internet information talk to their doctors and how their doctors talk to them. We will also give patients questionnaires before and after their appointments to learn about what they think about communicating with their doctors.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Subject Inclusion Criteria for Patients
- •Diagnosis of breast cancer
- •Pre-surgery (\*for breast surgeon patients only)
- •Report that they have read breast cancer-related internet information since their diagnosis with breast cancer.
- •Provide informed consent
- •Subject Inclusion Criteria Physicians
- •Breast surgeon or breast medical oncologist
- •Agree to participate in study and one of 10 selected participants
- •Provide inform consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •Exclusion Criteria for Patients
- •Less than 21 years of age
- •Cognitive or physical impairment rendering patients incapable of providing informed consent to participate in the study
- •As the measures and coding system are all written in English, subjects who are not fluent in English will be excluded.
- •Exclusion Criteria for Physicians
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
To examine the effect of physician responses to cancer-related internet information on patient satisfaction and anxiety. (Category 1 patients).
Time Frame: conclusion of study
patients in Category 1 (those who have been recorded discussing internet information with their physician) are pt satisfaction & pt anxiety. PT satisfaction with the consultation is an outcome assessed only at the end of the consultation.
Time Frame: conclusion of the study
Secondary Outcomes
- To identify cancer patients' reasons for not discussing cancer-related internet information with their physicians. (Category 2 and 3 patients).(conclusion of study)