Digital Delivery of Patient Education: A Case Study of Symptom Self-Management During Cancer Treatment

NCT ID: NCT06187610

Last Updated: 2024-01-03

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

110 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-01

Study Completion Date

2024-11-01

Brief Summary

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The increasing shift from face-to-face to online patient-clinician encounters in the healthcare system requires patients to be more involved in their medical care. This raises the urgent need to evaluate the extent to which proactive patients' self-care can be supported, particularly by informed telemedicine digital channels. Despite this imperative, research offering evidence-based instructional design of digital education remains surprisingly scarce. Embracing the framework of science education, which highlights the functional role of different knowledge types in educational processes, the current study seeks to evaluate an educational approach aimed at supporting cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Cancer treatment serves as an exemplar health condition, demanding daily self-management from patients. The objectives of our research are as follows: (1) To delineate the types of knowledge required for effective symptom management, active participation in one's healthcare, and judicious decision-making regarding emergency room (ER) visits, with a focus on mechanistic knowledge pertaining to the rationale for treatment and procedural knowledge concerning the treatment regimen. (2) To appraise the impact of a digital learning environment in contrast to traditional methods on patients' acquisition of mechanistic and procedural knowledge. (3) To identify how patients engage with the digital patient education environment aiming to outline leaning patterns.

The investigators hypothesize that implementing digital education will enhance patients' understanding of both the 'why' (mechanistic) and 'how' (procedural) aspects of their treatment. Importantly, the investigators expect that mechanistic knowledge will be more impactful than procedural knowledge, leading to better symptom management and patient involvement, and ultimately reducing unnecessary visits to the ER.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Digital Education Interventions Knowledge Types (Mechanistic Versus Procedural)

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Educational intervention group

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Digital education

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients assigned to the experimental group will learn about symptom self-management in a digital learning environment.

Control group

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Digital education

Patients assigned to the experimental group will learn about symptom self-management in a digital learning environment.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients
* Chemotherapy session within a specific round of treatment, with eligible treatments including FOLFOX, FOLFIRINOX, and FLOT.
* Hebrew speakers.

Exclusion Criteria

* Impaired or degraded cognitive capabilities that may hinder effective learning.
* Individuals who discontinue their treatments due to terminal advancement of their disease or death.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Weizmann Institute of Science

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Tel Aviv University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ilana Dubovi

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Ichilov Hospital

Tel Aviv, , Israel

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Israel

Central Contacts

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Ilana Dubovi

Role: CONTACT

+97254-7922358

Facility Contacts

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Tair Vizel

Role: primary

+97254-2444245

Other Identifiers

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CancerEducationTau

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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