Teaching Improved Communication To Adolescents and Clinicians

NCT03152045 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Pro00078439
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 36
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an intervention aimed at improving how adolescent patients and their clinicians communicate about behavior change.

Conditions

Communication Improvement Between Adolescent and Clinician

Keywords

communication between adolescent patients and their clinician

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Feasibility as measured by recruitment number

  We will consider the intervention feasible if we recruit 20 adolescent patients and up to 10 clinicians per site.

  9 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Acceptability

  9 months

Other Outcomes (3)

• Patient perceived provider empathy as measure by a summed 10-question scale

  10 minutes

• Patient perceived autonomy support using a 15 question scale

  10 minutes

• Patient's self rated participation in the encounter

  10 minutes

Study Arms (2)

Communication Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Investigators are testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a systems intervention that asks adolescents to report their risk behaviors before their encounter. Both clinicians and patients will receive a Feedback Guide that gives them tips on effective ways to communicate about these behaviors.

Behavioral: Communication Intervention

Standard Of Care

NO INTERVENTION

Investigators will compare patients randomized into the intervention group to those who receive standard of care.

Interventions

Communication Intervention BEHAVIORAL

In this study, Investigators are testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a systems intervention that asks adolescents to report their risk behaviors before their encounter. Both clinicians and patients will receive a Feedback Guide that gives them tips on effective ways to communicate about these behaviors.

Communication Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 21 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• All English-speaking adolescent patients
• cognitively able to participate

You may not qualify if:

• Adolescents less than 12 years of age
• Adolescents over 21 years of age
• cognitively unable to participate.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Duke University: lead
• University of Michigan: collaborator

Study Sites (2)

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, 27705, United States

Location

Duke University Medical Center - Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control

Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Hoglund AT, Winblad U, Arnetz B, Arnetz JE. Patient participation during hospitalization for myocardial infarction: perceptions among patients and personnel. Scand J Caring Sci. 2010 Sep;24(3):482-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2009.00738.x.

  PMID: 20230518 RESULT

Related Links

• Related Info

Study Officials

• Kathryn Pollak, PhD

  Duke University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Interventional: to evaluate the effect of Feedback Guides on clinician-adolescent communication about hight-risk behaviors. Control: standard of care

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 2, 2017
• First Posted: May 12, 2017
• Study Start: September 25, 2017
• Primary Completion: October 29, 2018
• Study Completion: October 29, 2018
• Last Updated: December 11, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (2)