NCT04549571

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

75
On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
543

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
8mo left

Started Feb 2021

Longer than P75 for not_applicable

Geographic Reach
1 country

27 active sites

Status
active not recruiting

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

Study Progress89%
Feb 2021Jan 2027

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

September 9, 2020

Completed
7 days until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

September 16, 2020

Completed
5 months until next milestone

Study Start

First participant enrolled

February 16, 2021

Completed
3.2 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

May 1, 2024

Completed
2.7 years until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

January 1, 2027

Expected
Last Updated

April 2, 2025

Status Verified

March 1, 2025

Enrollment Period

3.2 years

First QC Date

September 9, 2020

Last Update Submit

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)

EXPERIMENTAL

Patients 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.

Other: Decision Aid iCanDecide - ESE websiteProcedure: Therapeutic Conventional SurgeryOther: InterviewOther: Survey AdministrationOther: Quality-of-Life Assessment

Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Patients 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.

Other: Decision Aid iCanDecide - S websiteProcedure: Therapeutic Conventional SurgeryOther: InterviewOther: Survey AdministrationOther: Quality-of-Life Assessment

Clinics 1-5: (CDB)

EXPERIMENTAL

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Media InterventionOther: Survey Administration

Clinics 6-8 (CDB)

EXPERIMENTAL

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Media InterventionOther: Survey Administration

Clinics 9-11 (CDB)

EXPERIMENTAL

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Media InterventionOther: Survey Administration

Clinics 12-14 (CDB)

EXPERIMENTAL

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Media InterventionOther: Survey Administration

Clinics 15-17 (CDB)

EXPERIMENTAL

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Media InterventionOther: Survey Administration

Clinics 18-20 (CDB)

EXPERIMENTAL

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Media InterventionOther: Survey Administration

Clinics 21-25 (usual care)

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Beginning 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.

Other: InterviewOther: TrainingOther: Best PracticeOther: Survey Administration

Interventions

Utilize the iCanDecide - ESE website

Arm I: (iCanDecide - ESE)

Utilize the iCanDecide - S website

Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)

Undergo surgery

Arm I: (iCanDecide - ESE)Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)

Participate in interview

Arm I: (iCanDecide - ESE)Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)Clinics 1-5: (CDB)Clinics 12-14 (CDB)Clinics 15-17 (CDB)Clinics 18-20 (CDB)Clinics 21-25 (usual care)Clinics 6-8 (CDB)Clinics 9-11 (CDB)

Receive training

Clinics 1-5: (CDB)Clinics 12-14 (CDB)Clinics 15-17 (CDB)Clinics 18-20 (CDB)Clinics 21-25 (usual care)Clinics 6-8 (CDB)Clinics 9-11 (CDB)

Utilize the CDB

Clinics 1-5: (CDB)Clinics 12-14 (CDB)Clinics 15-17 (CDB)Clinics 18-20 (CDB)Clinics 6-8 (CDB)Clinics 9-11 (CDB)

Utilize usual care

Clinics 21-25 (usual care)

Ancillary studies

Arm I: (iCanDecide - ESE)Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)Clinics 1-5: (CDB)Clinics 12-14 (CDB)Clinics 15-17 (CDB)Clinics 18-20 (CDB)Clinics 21-25 (usual care)Clinics 6-8 (CDB)Clinics 9-11 (CDB)

Ancillary studies

Arm I: (iCanDecide - ESE)Arm II: (iCanDecide - S)

Eligibility Criteria

Sexfemale
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsChild (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

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

Location

Helen F Graham Cancer Center

Newark, Delaware, 19713, United States

Location

Beebe Health Campus

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, 19971, United States

Location

Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion at Saint Joseph's/Candler

Savannah, Georgia, 31405, United States

Location

Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center

Honolulu, Hawaii, 96819, United States

Location

SSM Health Good Samaritan

Mount Vernon, Illinois, 62864, United States

Location

Maine Medical Center- Scarborough Campus

Scarborough, Maine, 04074, United States

Location

Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals - Butterworth Hospital

Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503, United States

Location

West Michigan Cancer Center

Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49007, United States

Location

Ascension Borgess Hospital

Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49048, United States

Location

Northern Westchester Hospital

Mount Kisco, New York, 10549, United States

Location

NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

New York, New York, 10032, United States

Location

Montefiore Medical Center-Einstein Campus

The Bronx, New York, 10461, United States

Location

Novant Health Breast Surgery - Greensboro

Greensboro, North Carolina, 27403, United States

Location

Sanford Bismarck Medical Center

Bismarck, North Dakota, 58501, United States

Location

Sanford Broadway Medical Center

Fargo, North Dakota, 58122, United States

Location

Adena Regional Medical Center

Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601, United States

Location

Saint Ann's Hospital

Westerville, Ohio, 43081, United States

Location

Genesis Healthcare System Cancer Care Center

Zanesville, Ohio, 43701, United States

Location

Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women

Memphis, Tennessee, 38120, United States

Location

ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center

Appleton, Wisconsin, 54911, United States

Location

Marshfield Medical Center-EC Cancer Center

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 54701, United States

Location

Aurora Cancer Care-Grafton

Grafton, Wisconsin, 53024, United States

Location

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center

La Crosse, Wisconsin, 54601, United States

Location

Aspirus Regional Cancer Center

Wausau, Wisconsin, 54401, United States

Location

Ascension Medical Group Southeast Wisconsin - Mayfair Road

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 53226, United States

Location

Aurora West Allis Medical Center

West Allis, Wisconsin, 53227, United States

Location

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.

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Breast Carcinoma In Situ

Interventions

Interviews as TopicPractice Guidelines as Topic

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Carcinoma in SituCarcinomaNeoplasms, Glandular and EpithelialNeoplasms by Histologic TypeNeoplasmsBreast NeoplasmsNeoplasms by SiteBreast DiseasesSkin DiseasesSkin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data CollectionEpidemiologic MethodsInvestigative TechniquesHealth Care Evaluation MechanismsQuality of Health CareHealth Care Quality, Access, and EvaluationPublic HealthEnvironment and Public HealthGuidelines as TopicQuality Assurance, Health CareHealth Services Administration

Study Officials

  • Sarah T. Hawley, PhD, MPH

    University of Michigan School of Medicine and Public Health

    STUDY CHAIR

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

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