Teaching Improved Communication To Adolescents and Clinicians

NCT ID: NCT03152045

Last Updated: 2018-12-11

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

36 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-09-25

Study Completion Date

2018-10-29

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an intervention aimed at improving how adolescent patients and their clinicians communicate about behavior change.

Detailed Description

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The investigators propose a randomized pilot trial across two health systems, Duke University and University of Michigan to evaluate the effect of Feedback Guides on clinician-adolescent communication about high-risk behaviors.

* The investigators consent clinicians prior to any patient recruitment.
* When a patient aged 12-21 years arrives for an annual visit and is a patient of a consented clinician, the front desk staff will provide the teen with an iPad tablet.
* As part of standard clinical care, all teens will complete the Rapid Assessment for Adolescent Preventive Services (RAAPS) questionnaire on the tablet privately (either in waiting room or in clinic room while waiting for the provider).
* The patient and parent will then review a study explanation and informed consent on the tablet and sign electronically if they agree to participate. The study clinician will review the informed consent with the patient and answer any questions.
* Participating teens will then complete a brief baseline survey and those randomized to the intervention arm will print the visit conversation guides using a wireless study printer connected to the tablet. The guides will print in a designated nursing area and clinic staff will add the printed guides to visit-related paperwork for the patient and clinician to use during the visit.
* The teen patient audio records the encounter on the tablet.
* The patient completes post-visit patient survey on tablet.
* The clinician completes a post-visit survey on paper.
* The patient returns tablet to clinic staff.
* The iPad will be connected to a study workstation, where the iTunes application will be used to transfer the audio file from the Voice Memos app to the workstation and then to it's final destination on the file server. Once the transfer has been confirmed, using iTunes, the audio file will be deleted from both the iPad and the workstation, including any residual versions of the audio file.
* Three months after the encounter, staff will provide participating patients a link to a REDCap survey (not the survey itself). The link will be sent using the preferred method selected by the patient through a question in the baseline survey - email or short message service (SMS). To protect the confidentiality of the responses, we will also provide the participant a code to access the REDCap follow-up survey. This will prevent others from accessing the survey results.

Conditions

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Communication Improvement Between Adolescent and Clinician

Keywords

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communication between adolescent patients and their clinician

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Interventional: to evaluate the effect of Feedback Guides on clinician-adolescent communication about hight-risk behaviors.

Control: standard of care
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Communication Intervention

Investigators are testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a systems intervention that asks adolescents to report their risk behaviors before their encounter. Both clinicians and patients will receive a Feedback Guide that gives them tips on effective ways to communicate about these behaviors.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Communication Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In this study, Investigators are testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a systems intervention that asks adolescents to report their risk behaviors before their encounter. Both clinicians and patients will receive a Feedback Guide that gives them tips on effective ways to communicate about these behaviors.

Standard Of Care

Investigators will compare patients randomized into the intervention group to those who receive standard of care.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Communication Intervention

In this study, Investigators are testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a systems intervention that asks adolescents to report their risk behaviors before their encounter. Both clinicians and patients will receive a Feedback Guide that gives them tips on effective ways to communicate about these behaviors.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All English-speaking adolescent patients
* cognitively able to participate

Exclusion Criteria

* Adolescents less than 12 years of age
* Adolescents over 21 years of age
* cognitively unable to participate.
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

21 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Duke University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Kathryn Pollak, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke University

Locations

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Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Site Status

Duke University Medical Center - Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Hoglund AT, Winblad U, Arnetz B, Arnetz JE. Patient participation during hospitalization for myocardial infarction: perceptions among patients and personnel. Scand J Caring Sci. 2010 Sep;24(3):482-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2009.00738.x.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 20230518 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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Pro00078439

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id