Can Austrian Lung Specialists' Assessments of Lung Cancer Screening be Influenced by a Fact Box?"

NCT04819477 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Version 5.0. / 14.10.2020
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 973
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Lung cancer is the most frequently dianosed cancer worldwide. To date, no screening method has been able to establish itself as routinely recommended by the guidelines. In this prospective study with 1:1 randomized questioning using an Internet tool, physicians will be asked in 2 phases (before and after intervention with a fact box) about their assessment of the benefits and risks of lung cancer screening by thoracic computed tomography and about a potential intention to change referral behavior. Randomly assigned, half of the participants will receive the same information in addition to the fact box graphically presented as a Cates plot.

Conditions

Lung Cancer

Keywords

Screening

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• CT-Screening

  Proportion of physicians CT-Screening

  through study completion, an average of 1 year

Study Arms (2)

Cate Plots

OTHER

after being asked about current referral practices and assessment of benefits and risks of lung cancer screening, all respondents will receive the Fact box after which they will be randomized into two equal groups. The first group (Arm 1) receives a Cates plot and then another survey about assessment of benefits and risks of lung cancer screening and potential change in referral behavior.

Behavioral: Fact box; Behavioral: Cates plot

Fact box only

OTHER

after being asked about current referral practices and assessment of benefits and risks of lung cancer screening, all respondents will receive the Fact box after which they will be randomized into two equal groups. The second group (Arm 2) receives then a survey about assessment of benefits and risks of lung cancer screening and potential change in referral behavior

Behavioral: Fact box

Interventions

Fact box BEHAVIORAL

All physicians surveyed receive a fact box with numerical information on the benefits and harms of chest CT as a screening method. In addition to the fact box, half of the participants will be randomly assigned to receive the same information in the form of a Cates plot.

Cate Plots; Fact box only

Cates plot BEHAVIORAL

In addition to the fact box, half of the participants will be randomly assigned to receive the same information in the form of a Cates plot.

Cate Plots

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 99 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Members of the Austrian Society of Pneumology (ÖGP) with a completed pulmonary subject and members of the Austrian Radiological Society (ÖRG), Society for Medical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine with a completed subject.

You may not qualify if:

• Non members of the Austrian Society of Pneumology (ÖGP)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karl Landsteiner Institute for Lung Research and Pneumological Oncology: lead

Study Sites (1)

Karl Landsteiner Institut für Lungenforschung und Pneumologische Onkologie

Vienna, 1160, Austria

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Lung Neoplasms

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Study Officials

• Georg-Christian Funk, MD

  2nd Medical Department with Pneumology

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 24, 2021
• First Posted: March 29, 2021
• Study Start: May 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: October 30, 2021
• Study Completion: October 30, 2021
• Last Updated: March 18, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

AU (1)