Improving Patient-Centered Communication in Breast Cancer Through Patient and Provider Interventions
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
This trial studies the effectiveness of two interventions on patient reported outcomes of patient centered communication and decision making about breast cancer treatment. The first intervention consists of enhancements to an existing patient-facing breast cancer treatment decision tool called iCanDecide that supports the management of worry, distress, and anxiety as compared to an existing tool. The second intervention consists of a clinician dashboard that populates information after patients view either website regarding any ongoing issues or concerns.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Feb 2021
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
27 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
September 9, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
September 16, 2020
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
February 16, 2021
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
May 1, 2024
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
January 1, 2027
ExpectedApril 2, 2025
March 1, 2025
3.2 years
September 9, 2020
March 28, 2025
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Patient knowledge about risks and benefits of local regional treatment
Will be defined as the percentage of correct answers (range: 0-100%) from a 5-item scale previously developed and pilot tested where higher percentages indicate increased knowledge of treatment risks and benefits of local regional treatment. Because the interventions are fully crossed (with intervention and control patients within both intervention and control practices for every time period), the intervention effect of iCanDecide-E and the intervention effect of the clinician dashboard (CDB) will be obtained from a single linear mixed-effects model for the continuous primary outcome measure patient knowledge.
At 4-5 weeks post patient randomization
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Patient self-efficacy in dealing with breast cancer
At 4-5 weeks post patient randomization
Patient cancer worry
At 4-5 weeks post patient randomization
Study Arms (9)
Arm I: (iCanDecide - ESE)
EXPERIMENTALPatients utilize the iCanDecide - ESE website, then undergo surgery within 5 weeks of registration. Patients may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes at 9-12 months post registration.
Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)
ACTIVE COMPARATORPatients utilize the iCanDecide - S website, then undergo surgery within 5 weeks of registration. Patients may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes at 9-12 months post registration.
Clinics 1-5: (CDB)
EXPERIMENTALBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and utilize the CDB over weeks 1-60. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Clinics 6-8 (CDB)
EXPERIMENTALBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and utilize the CDB over weeks 10-60. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Clinics 9-11 (CDB)
EXPERIMENTALBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and utilize the CDB over weeks 20-60. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Clinics 12-14 (CDB)
EXPERIMENTALBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and utilize the CDB over weeks 30-60. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Clinics 15-17 (CDB)
EXPERIMENTALBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and utilize the CDB over weeks 40-60. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Clinics 18-20 (CDB)
EXPERIMENTALBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and utilize the CDB over weeks 50-60. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Clinics 21-25 (usual care)
ACTIVE COMPARATORBeginning 4 weeks before the practice begins use of the CDB, clinicians receive training on how to use the CDB and continue to provide breast cancer surgical care per their usual care. Clinicians may also participate in an audio-recorded phone interview over 20 minutes.
Interventions
Utilize the iCanDecide - ESE website
Undergo surgery
Participate in interview
Receive training
Utilize the CDB
Ancillary studies
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- PATIENT ELIGIBILITY
- Women newly diagnosed with stage 0-III breast cancer. Although men are recommended to undergo surgery to treat breast cancer, male breast cancer is relatively rare and decision making for breast cancer surgery is quite different between men and women
- Planning breast surgery as a component of their definitive treatment within 5 weeks of registration
- Receives care from a clinician and at a practice that has consented to participate in the clinician dashboard practice-level intervention. Practices/clinicians will consent initially at the initiation of the study. Patients will then be identified and recruited in those practices. If a practice has more than one clinician doing breast surgery, patients will be recruited from those clinicians who consent (one or more). Patients of clinicians who have not consented will not be eligible
- Patients must be able to speak English or Spanish with the fluency required to have a direct discussion around treatment decision-making (i.e. without interpreter)
- Age 21-84 years
- CLINICIAN STAKEHOLDER (SURGEONS AND CLINIC STAFF) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Clinicians eligible for this study include: breast surgeons and their designee(s) (e.g., physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, or nurses) that participate in the treatment decision-making process. At least one surgical oncologist at a practice must agree to participate and sign consent. S/he may then also identify a nurse, physician assistant (PA) or advanced practice provider (APP) with whom s/he works that is involved in the delivery of the care of the same patients to participate. Henceforth, in this protocol they will be referred to as "clinicians"
- Clinicians must agree to have their patients recruited for the entire time the study is open at their practice, which will include time periods in which the clinicians will and time periods in which they will not have access to the CDB
- INSTITUTION ELIGIBILITY:
- Practices that annually provide surgical care for over 100 patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer are eligible to participate in this study
- Eligible practices must have at least one surgical oncologist who agrees to participate in the study
You may not qualify if:
- Patients who are visually impaired are not eligible, as they must be able to access the study intervention on a website at home or in clinic and view the decision aid
- Patients with impaired decision-making capacity (such as with a diagnosis of dementia or memory loss) are not eligible for this study
- Practices currently enrolling to Alliance A231701CD are not eligible to participate in this study
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (27)
Kaiser Permanente-Vallejo
Vallejo, California, 94589, United States
Helen F Graham Cancer Center
Newark, Delaware, 19713, United States
Beebe Health Campus
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, 19971, United States
Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion at Saint Joseph's/Candler
Savannah, Georgia, 31405, United States
Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96819, United States
SSM Health Good Samaritan
Mount Vernon, Illinois, 62864, United States
Maine Medical Center- Scarborough Campus
Scarborough, Maine, 04074, United States
Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals - Butterworth Hospital
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503, United States
West Michigan Cancer Center
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49007, United States
Ascension Borgess Hospital
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49048, United States
Northern Westchester Hospital
Mount Kisco, New York, 10549, United States
NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
New York, New York, 10032, United States
Montefiore Medical Center-Einstein Campus
The Bronx, New York, 10461, United States
Novant Health Breast Surgery - Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina, 27403, United States
Sanford Bismarck Medical Center
Bismarck, North Dakota, 58501, United States
Sanford Broadway Medical Center
Fargo, North Dakota, 58122, United States
Adena Regional Medical Center
Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601, United States
Saint Ann's Hospital
Westerville, Ohio, 43081, United States
Genesis Healthcare System Cancer Care Center
Zanesville, Ohio, 43701, United States
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Memphis, Tennessee, 38120, United States
ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center
Appleton, Wisconsin, 54911, United States
Marshfield Medical Center-EC Cancer Center
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 54701, United States
Aurora Cancer Care-Grafton
Grafton, Wisconsin, 53024, United States
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
La Crosse, Wisconsin, 54601, United States
Aspirus Regional Cancer Center
Wausau, Wisconsin, 54401, United States
Ascension Medical Group Southeast Wisconsin - Mayfair Road
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 53226, United States
Aurora West Allis Medical Center
West Allis, Wisconsin, 53227, United States
Related Publications (1)
Hawley ST, Kidwell K, Zahrieh D, McCarthy A, Wills R, Rankin A, Hofer T, Chow S, Jagsi R, Neuman H. Improving patient-centered communication in breast cancer: a study protocol for a multilevel intervention of a shared treatment deliberation system (SharES) within the NCI community oncology research program (NCORP) (Alliance A231901CD). Trials. 2023 Jan 6;24(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-07048-4.
PMID: 36609349DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- STUDY CHAIR
Sarah T. Hawley, PhD, MPH
University of Michigan School of Medicine and Public Health
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER
- Masking Details
- The enhanced content of the ESE version iCanDecide-ESE is available to the patient, but does not populate differently into the CDB, allowing clinicians to remain blinded to the patient-level randomization arm; therefore, both the patient and the practice and clinicians will be blinded as to which arm the patient is assigned to. However, the surgical practices and their clinicians will know when they are using the CDB so the clinician level intervention will not be blinded.
- Purpose
- HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Intervention Model
- FACTORIAL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
September 9, 2020
First Posted
September 16, 2020
Study Start
February 16, 2021
Primary Completion
May 1, 2024
Study Completion (Estimated)
January 1, 2027
Last Updated
April 2, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-03