Effects of the Use of Multi Criterion Decision Analysis (MCDA) on Decision Quality in an Online Delphi

NCT03498365 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: PLOT-D MCDA
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 385
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To examine the effects of using decision support tools during the online Delphi process.

Conditions

Behavioral Changes

Keywords

decision analysis; decision support

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• My Decision Quality (MDQ)

  MDQ is a patient reported outcome measure that combines a set of importance weights for multiple criteria (options, effect, importance, chance, trust, support ,control and commitment) with performance ratings for each option on these criteria and calculates the overall score as the expected value of these components.

  Up to 20 weeks or study completion

Other Outcomes (1)

• Time to consensus

  Up to 20 weeks or study completion

Study Arms (2)

Online MCDA

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: MCDA

Online Delphi

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Delphi

Interventions

MCDA BEHAVIORAL

Experimental decision support

Online MCDA

Delphi BEHAVIORAL

Standard support

Online Delphi

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Protocol lab online trialsl Delphi (PLOT-D) Participant

Sponsors & Collaborators

• ThinkWell: lead
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (5)

• Price A, Albarqouni L, Kirkpatrick J, Clarke M, Liew SM, Roberts N, Burls A. Patient and public involvement in the design of clinical trials: An overview of systematic reviews. J Eval Clin Pract. 2018 Feb;24(1):240-253. doi: 10.1111/jep.12805. Epub 2017 Oct 27.

  PMID: 29076631 BACKGROUND

• Brice A, Price A, Burls A. Creating a database of internet-based clinical trials to support a public-led research programme: A descriptive analysis. Digit Health. 2015 Nov 20;1:2055207615617854. doi: 10.1177/2055207615617854. eCollection 2015 Jan-Dec.

  PMID: 29942546 BACKGROUND

• Dowie J, Kjer Kaltoft M, Salkeld G, Cunich M. Towards generic online multicriteria decision support in patient-centred health care. Health Expect. 2015 Oct;18(5):689-702. doi: 10.1111/hex.12111. Epub 2013 Aug 2.

  PMID: 23910715 BACKGROUND

• Kaltoft MK, Dowie J, Turner R, et al. Decisional equipoise is not decisional conflict: avoiding the false clarity bias in the evaluation of decision aids and Shared Decision Making processes. F1000Research 2015;4. doi:10.7490/F1000RESEARCH.1110671.1

  BACKGROUND

• Kaltoft M, Cunich M, Salkeld G, Dowie J. Assessing decision quality in patient-centred care requires a preference-sensitive measure. J Health Serv Res Policy. 2014 Apr;19(2):110-7. doi: 10.1177/1355819613511076. Epub 2013 Dec 12.

  PMID: 24335587 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Amy I Price, PhD

  University of Oxford

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Mike J Clarke, DPhil

  Queen's University, Belfast

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Mette Kjer Kaltoft, PhD

  Syddansk Universitet

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Jack Dowie, PhD

  The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 1, 2018
• First Posted: April 13, 2018
• Study Start: March 15, 2019
• Primary Completion: May 30, 2019
• Study Completion: October 31, 2019
• Last Updated: March 22, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, ICF
• Time Frame: following publication
• Access Criteria: contact PI

Locations

GB (1)