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Basic Information
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NOT_YET_RECRUITING
NA
108 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2026-09-01
2028-12-31
Brief Summary
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The researchers will learn if doing a clinical trial of CKD Topics is possible (feasible) and get information about how well CKD Topics helps people with advanced CKD shape visit discussions (self-advocacy) in their appointments with their clinicians. The information the researchers collect in this trial will help design a future trial with more participants.
The main questions the researchers aim to answer are:
* Is it possible to conduct this type of study of a SAS intervention? i.e. feasibility
* Does the SAS intervention help people with advanced CKD shape discussions (self-advocacy) with their clinicians? If so, how much? i.e. preliminary efficacy
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Detailed Description
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This study has two arms: 1) a usual care arm, and 2) an intervention arm where participants and their nephrology physicians will use CKD Topics during their visits. Physicians will initially be randomly assigned to one of three clusters, with two attending physicians and one fellow physician in each cluster. Each cluster will start out practicing usual care for at least eight months during the enrollment period. After that initial 8 months, one cluster will cross over to the intervention arm every four months, by using the CKD Topics tool in their visits, in what's called the rollout period. At 16 months into the trial, all clusters will be on the intervention arm, using CKD topics with patients, and will do so for the remaining 12 months of the trial.
Patient participants will be enrolled in the study arm to which their physicians have been randomized. Participation is expected to last 24 months for patients and clinicians, and participants may use CKD Topics more than once during the study period. The researchers expect 108 patient participants, and nine clinicians will enroll in the study. Every participant will receive a baseline survey after enrollment and four subsequent surveys.
The procedures in this study will include screening patients for study eligibility, consenting them to participate in study activities such as filling out surveys. The intervention, CKD topics, itself will be administered as quality improvement so will not be included as a research activity needing consent.
Future Directions: Findings from this trial will forecast a range of participants required in the sample for a full-scale RCT and illustrate "proof of concept" for a future trial which will evaluate the intervention's impact on patient self-advocacy and clinical care outcomes in rural CKD populations.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
CROSSOVER
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Study Groups
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Arm 1 is Usual Care
The clinicians in the nephrology clinic will proceed with usual care without intervention from the study team.
No interventions assigned to this group
Arm 2 is Clinical Visit Agenda Setting Tool Intervention
The study team will implement a structured clinical visit agenda-setting (SAS) intervention customized for advanced chronic kidney disease, called Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics.
Chronic Kidney Disease Structured Agenda-Setting Tool
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics is a novel clinical visit agenda-setting intervention developed through participatory research methods for people with CKD living in rural areas. CKD Topics includes structured discussion topic areas.
Interventions
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Chronic Kidney Disease Structured Agenda-Setting Tool
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics is a novel clinical visit agenda-setting intervention developed through participatory research methods for people with CKD living in rural areas. CKD Topics includes structured discussion topic areas.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Care partners, clinicians and staff supporting these CKD patients who are willing and able to provide informed consent
* English-speaking
* Able to provide informed consent
* Patient must be attending outpatient visits \*(in-person and/or telehealth allowable).
Exclusion Criteria
* Non-English-speaking patients and/or care partners
* Patients on dialysis
* Individuals unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Dartmouth College
OTHER
University of Washington
OTHER
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
NIH
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Catherine Hylas Saunders
Scientist & Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy & Clinical Practice
Locations
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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Catherine H. Saunders, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy, PhD, MPH
Role: CONTACT
References
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Clayman ML, Pandit AU, Bergeron AR, Cameron KA, Ross E, Wolf MS. Ask, understand, remember: a brief measure of patient communication self-efficacy within clinical encounters. J Health Commun. 2010;15 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):72-9. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2010.500349.
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Saunders CH, Durand MA, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, Elwyn G. Psychometric assessment of the consideRATE questions, a new measure of serious illness experience, with an online simulation study. Patient Educ Couns. 2022 Jul;105(7):2581-2589. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2022.01.002. Epub 2022 Jan 22.
Saunders CH, Durand MA, Scalia P, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, Milne DW, Collison J, Bennett A, Wasp G, Nelson E, Elwyn G. "It helps us say what's important..." Developing Serious Illness Topics: A clinical visit agenda-setting tool. Patient Educ Couns. 2023 Aug;113:107764. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.107764. Epub 2023 Apr 18.
Saunders CH, Durand MA, Scalia P, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, Milne DW, Collison J, Jaggars A, Butt T, Wasp G, Nelson E, Elwyn G. User-Centered Design of the consideRATE Questions, a Measure of People's Experiences When They Are Seriously Ill. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 Mar;61(3):555-565.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.002. Epub 2020 Aug 16.
Sierpe A, Yen RW, Stevens G, Van Citters AD, Elwyn G, Saunders CH. Agenda-setting in the clinical encounter: A systematic review protocol. PLoS One. 2024 Oct 24;19(10):e0312613. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312613. eCollection 2024.
Weiner BJ, Lewis CC, Stanick C, Powell BJ, Dorsey CN, Clary AS, Boynton MH, Halko H. Psychometric assessment of three newly developed implementation outcome measures. Implement Sci. 2017 Aug 29;12(1):108. doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0635-3.
Wild MG, Wallston KA, Green JA, Beach LB, Umeukeje E, Wright Nunes JA, Ikizler TA, Steed J, Cavanaugh KL. The Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale can be applied to patients with chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2017 Oct;92(4):972-978. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2017.03.018. Epub 2017 May 18.
Other Identifiers
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STUDY02002598_1
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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