Patient-Centered Care Survey

NCT06068634 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: FER-CSS-2023-0248
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,500
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The key to patient-centered care is to identify what the patient perceives as meaningful. The primary objective of this research is to evaluate which aspects of patient-centered care are priorities to infertility patients, and if those priorities vary by geographical region.

Conditions

Infertility

Keywords

Patient-centered care; Patient experience

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Descriptive Analysis

  Descriptive analyses of survey results.

  6 months

Study Arms (1)

Current Patients

Current patient is defined as any patient who has had any type of visit at a participating clinic within the last 6 months of the date of study initiation.

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Infertility patients who have had any type of visit at a participating clinic within the last 6 months of the date of study initiation. Participating clinics are United States based fertility clinics who are part of The Prelude Network. This includes 10 fertility practices, consisting of approximately 40 individual locations.

You may qualify if:

• Current patient within The Prelude Network (a network of fertility clinics).
• Has had any type of visit at a participating clinic within the last 6 months of the date of study initiation.

You may not qualify if:

• Not a current patient at a participating clinic.
• Has not had an appointment within 6 months of the date of study initiation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Inception Fertility Research Institute, LLC: lead
• EMD Serono: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Inception Fertility, LLC

Houston, Texas, 77081, United States

Location

Related Publications (10)

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  PMID: 15242992 BACKGROUND

• den Breejen EM, Nelen WL, Schol SF, Kremer JA, Hermens RP. Development of guideline-based indicators for patient-centredness in fertility care: what patients add. Hum Reprod. 2013 Apr;28(4):987-96. doi: 10.1093/humrep/det010. Epub 2013 Feb 14.

  PMID: 23411619 BACKGROUND

• Domar AD, Gross J, Rooney K, Boivin J. Exploratory randomized trial on the effect of a brief psychological intervention on emotions, quality of life, discontinuation, and pregnancy rates in in vitro fertilization patients. Fertil Steril. 2015 Aug;104(2):440-51.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.05.009. Epub 2015 Jun 13.

  PMID: 26072382 BACKGROUND

• Domar AD, Rooney K, Hacker MR, Sakkas D, Dodge LE. Burden of care is the primary reason why insured women terminate in vitro fertilization treatment. Fertil Steril. 2018 Jun;109(6):1121-1126. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.02.130.

  PMID: 29935647 BACKGROUND

• Garcia D, Bautista O, Venereo L, Coll O, Vassena R, Vernaeve V. Training in empathic skills improves the patient-physician relationship during the first consultation in a fertility clinic. Fertil Steril. 2013 Apr;99(5):1413-1418.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.12.012. Epub 2013 Jan 5.

  PMID: 23294674 BACKGROUND

• Huppelschoten AG, Aarts JW, van Empel IW, Cohlen BJ, Kremer JA, Nelen WL. Feedback to professionals on patient-centered fertility care is insufficient for improvement: a mixed-method study. Fertil Steril. 2013 Apr;99(5):1419-27. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.12.024. Epub 2013 Jan 26.

  PMID: 23357454 BACKGROUND

• Pasch LA, Holley SR, Bleil ME, Shehab D, Katz PP, Adler NE. Addressing the needs of fertility treatment patients and their partners: are they informed of and do they receive mental health services? Fertil Steril. 2016 Jul;106(1):209-215.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.03.006. Epub 2016 Mar 24.

  PMID: 27018159 BACKGROUND

• Troude P, Ancelet S, Guibert J, Pouly JL, Bouyer J, de La Rochebrochard E. Joint modeling of success and treatment discontinuation in in vitro fertilization programs: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2012 Aug 3;12:77. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-12-77.

  PMID: 22862824 BACKGROUND

• Troude P, Guibert J, Bouyer J, de La Rochebrochard E; DAIFI Group. Medical factors associated with early IVF discontinuation. Reprod Biomed Online. 2014 Mar;28(3):321-9. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.10.018. Epub 2013 Oct 31.

  PMID: 24461478 BACKGROUND

• van Empel IW, Dancet EA, Koolman XH, Nelen WL, Stolk EA, Sermeus W, D'Hooghe TM, Kremer JA. Physicians underestimate the importance of patient-centredness to patients: a discrete choice experiment in fertility care. Hum Reprod. 2011 Mar;26(3):584-93. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deq389. Epub 2011 Jan 12.

  PMID: 21227936 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Infertility

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Genital Diseases; Urogenital Diseases

Study Officials

• Alice Domar, PhD

  Inception Fertility

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: INDUSTRY
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 29, 2023
• First Posted: October 5, 2023
• Study Start: October 23, 2023
• Primary Completion: January 24, 2024
• Study Completion: April 24, 2024
• Last Updated: August 22, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-08

Locations

US (1)