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Patient Reported Experience in Endoscopic Ultrasound

Patient Reported Experience Measure in Endoscopic Ultrasonography: the PREUS Study

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05014347
Acronym
PREUS
Enrollment
171
Registered
2021-08-20
Start date
2021-06-01
Completion date
2031-12-31
Last updated
2026-04-15

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Bile Duct Diseases, Pancreatic Diseases

Keywords

patient reported experience measures, endoscopic ultrasonography, pancreatic, questionnaire

Brief summary

The evaluation of the patient's experience is becoming increasingly important as a better patient experience can improve the quality of the delivered health service. Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are self-reported assessment tools provided by patients about their experience during any health event. There are few PREMs's instruments in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy, and none is specific for Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS). The aim of this study is to develop a questionnaire to evaluate the experience of patients undergoing EUS, identifying and prioritizing the factors related to the patient's experience. In order of it, expected results are developing a valid tool of question to value patients experience during EUS and, for ranking, it is iphotized that will be more correlation with patients's and nurses's answer that clinicians's one. In literature is described that nurse's view and patient's view are more similar especially in those aspects concerning empatics and psychological aspects.

Detailed description

The study will consist of several phases: 1) Tool creation: a "patient reported measure of EUS" (PREUS) questionnaire will be created based on literature review; 2) Face and Content Validity: The PREUS tool will be submitted to 7 experts in the field (physicians, nurses, psychologist, communication expert, patients' advocacy representative) for a two-round evaluation and to "expert" patients who had already undergone EUS at least once. Content Validity Index (CVI) will be calculated and questions with a CVI \< 0.70 will be excluded; 3) Questionnaire Creation: Based on the results of phase 2, a modified "PREUS" tool will be then evaluated by ranking the relevance of the identified questions in the previous phase (from 0 to 10) by 50 outpatients undergoing EUS and Cronbach's alpha will be calculated to determine reliability; 4) Ranking: tool of phase 3 will be also evaluated by 6 physicians and 13 nurses working in IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele endoscopy Unit to measure the agreement between patients and health care professionals (HCPs) by the Spearman-Brown coefficients.

Interventions

None listed

Sponsors

IRCCS San Raffaele
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

* Age \> 18 years; * Outpatients undergoing EUS in I.R.C.C.S. San Raffaele Hospital (Milan, Lombardy, Italy); * Written informed consent signed

Exclusion criteria

\-

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
developing questionnaire9 monthsdevelop a questionnaire for Patient Reported Experience Measures during Endoscopic Ultrasound. In the first step it will be used a continuos Likert scale from 1 to 10 to analyse Content Validity Index, in the second step it will be used a score from 1 to 5 (1 = poor; 3 = good; 5 = excellent experience)

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
ranking9 monthsidentify aspects of care that are most relevant both for patients undergoing EUS and HCPs involved in this procedure on a continuous Likert scale from 1 to 10 (1 = less important; 5 = relatively important; 10 = more important).

Countries

Italy

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Apr 16, 2026