Writing Down Goals

NCT04932993 | Withdrawn

• 1 other identifier: 2019-07-0089
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The women's health IPU at UT Health Austin is happy with having patients write down their goals at their first visit and then tracking those. It would be interesting to study people seeking musculoskeletal specialty care to determine whether asking patients what result of their care would be rated a success helps direct the clinician-patient interaction in a more fruitful direction compared to the usual clinical interaction.

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Keywords

decisional conflict; Orthopedics

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Decision conflict questionnaire

  Questionnaire assessing decision conflict

  Baseline

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Decision regret questionnaire

  Baseline

• Jefferson Scale of Patient's Perceptions of Physician Empathy

  Baseline

• Patient Activation Measure-13

  Baseline

• Guttman Satisfaction scale

  Baseline

Study Arms (2)

Standard care

NO INTERVENTION

Will not write down goals their goals for their medical care (usual care).

Writing down goals

EXPERIMENTAL

Will write down goals their goals for their medical care.

Behavioral: Writing down goals

Interventions

Writing down goals BEHAVIORAL

Patient will write their health goals down before the visit.

Writing down goals

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 89 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Adult patients (18+)
• Orthopedic visit

You may not qualify if:

• Patients who are illiterate.
• Patients who do not speak English.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Texas at Austin: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Study Officials

• David Ring, MD, PhD

  Professor of Surgery, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: David Ring, MD, PhD Associate Dean for Comprehensive Care, Professor of Surgery and Psychiatry

Model Details: All new, adult (18+ years old) patients seeing an orthopedic surgeon for a consultation will be invited to participate in this study. Patients randomly will be assigned to: write down goals their goals for their medical care (intervention) or not (usual visit control group). The research assistant will ask the patient to fill out a survey entailing demographics, JSPPE, the communication effectiveness score, the PAM score and a satisfaction scale at the end of the visit. A research assistant will record the diagnosis,

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 8, 2021
• First Posted: June 21, 2021
• Study Start: September 1, 2025
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2025
• Study Completion: November 1, 2025
• Last Updated: July 31, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share