Musculoskeletal Diseases
Conditions
Keywords
Orthopedics
Brief summary
This study is seeking whether giving or not giving a clinician a card with talking points in the form of a checklist about the patient's story affects the patients care experience or not
Detailed description
During an office visit, the clinician and the patient engage in dialogue and begin a relationship. This traditionally starts with the patient telling their story, which conveys why they decided to seek care. This study will determine the influence of a checklist specifically about the patient's narrative. The checklist will be used during the interview portion of the visit, to remind the clinician to stay curious about the person before them, their experience of the illness, and their explanatory model, and to help ensure that empathic opportunities are not missed.
Interventions
OTHERStory checklist
The story checklist consists of a couple of questions that gives the physician something to keep in mind while visiting the patients.
Sponsors
University of Texas at Austin
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
Participants will randomly be assigned to 2 groups of intervention (The clinician receives the check list) and control (The clinician doesn't receive a checklist). After the visit patients will answer to questionnaires .
Intervention model description
Parallel Assignment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 89 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* New patients * Orthopedic visit
Exclusion criteria
* Languages other than English or Spanish. * Cognitive dysfunction precluding completion of questionnaires.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Patient Experience Measure questions | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Questionnaire assessing patient's experience |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Perceived empathy (JSPPPE) | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Patient perceived of physician empathy as measured by the JSPPPE;The scores range from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 7 (Strongly Agree), with the total score being between 5 and 35. Higher scores represent greater empathic perception about the physician. |
| Guttman | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Patient Satisfaction as measured by the Guttman Scale, The total score is between 0 and 7, with higher scores indicating greater satisfaction. |
| Guttman CEQ | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Communication Effectiveness Questionnaire; The total score is the sum of all item scores (9 to 63) with higher scores representing a greater degree of perceived communication effectiveness. |
| PROMIS PF CAT | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Patient Physical Function is measure by the PROMIS PF CAT; Higher scores indicate better physical function, with a mean of 50 for the general US population |
| NRS pain intensity assessment | through study completion, an average of 6 months | Numeric rating scale = 11 point ordinal scale, the higher score indicates the more pain intensity |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed