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A Tool for Improving the Shared Decision-making Process in Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Shared Decision-Making Encounter Tool for Adjuvant Treatment of Lung Cancer: Randomized Control Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06122064
Enrollment
100
Registered
2023-11-08
Start date
2023-11-20
Completion date
2029-10-31
Last updated
2026-08-20

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Conditions

Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma, Stage III Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage II Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v8

Brief summary

This clinical trial compares the use of a shared decision-making communication tool during a clinical encounter to standard care for improving the quality of the shared decision-making process among patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Lung cancer patients are faced with many decisions about their treatment options. Studies have found that patients are most satisfied if they perceive an effort by their physician to share decision making and are afforded sufficient time to make their decision. Shared decision-making tools can help physicians guide the conversation, offer tailored estimates of the potential benefits, harms, and practical inconveniences of the available options, and support deliberations that take into account patient biological and biographical circumstances, goals, and priorities. Incorporating a shared decision-making communication tool into standard clinical encounters may improve the shared-decision making process as well as patient satisfaction with their treatment choice.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Encounters where standard of care and the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) choice conversation aid were utilized will have an improvement in the quality of the shared decision-making process over encounters with standard of care alone. II. Patients with encounters where the NSCLC choice conversation aid was used along with standard of care will have decreased decisional conflict in regard to treatment choice compared to standard of care alone. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms. ARM I: Patients attend a standard of care visit with their clinician on study. ARM II: Patients attend a standard of care visit with the use of the shared decision-making conversation tool by the clinician on study. After completion of study intervention, patients are followed up at 2 and 6 weeks.

Interventions

OTHERBest Practice

Receive standard of care

OTHERCommunication Intervention

Use shared decision-making conversation tool

OTHERElectronic Health Record Review

Ancillary studies

OTHERSurvey Administration

Ancillary studies

Ancillary studies

Ancillary studies

Sponsors

Mayo Clinic
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* CLINICIANS: * All clinicians within identified departments participating are eligible (doctor of medicine \[MD\]/doctor of osteopathy \[DO\], fellows/residents, physician assistant \[PA\]/nurse practitioner \[NP\]) * PATIENTS: * Adult patients (\>= 18 years of age) * Appointments at Mayo Clinic in Rochester * Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) stage \> 1B * Eligible by their oncologist for adjuvant treatment

Exclusion criteria

* Exclude patient with major barriers to provide written informed consent or to participate in shared decision-making (i.e., dementia, severe hearing or visual impairment)

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Degree of involvement of patients by the clinician in the shared decision makingBaseline (immediately following appointment); 2 weeks post appointmentEvaluated using the 12-item "observing patient involvement" (OPTION12) tool, where reviewers will view and score recorded encounters. The survey tool consists of 12 items scored from 0-4, where 0=no effort and 4=exemplary effort.
Provider satisfaction with NSCLC choice conversation aidAfter each encounter for the duration of the study, until accrual is reachedProvider satisfaction with each encounter will be assessed with two questions. The first will be answered using a 5-point Likert scale where 1=Not at all satisfied and 5=Completely satisfied. The second will be answered using a 7-point scale where 1=No, I would strongly recommend against it and 7=Yes, I would strongly recommend it. Higher overall scores indicate higher satisfaction with the intervention.
Effectiveness of the intervention on implementing shared decision makingBaseline (immediately following appointment); 2 weeks post appointmentEffectiveness of the intervention will be assessed using the 9-item Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDMQ-9) to evaluate standard of care alone versus using the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) conversation aid plus standard of care. The overall score is the sum of the 9 items, where lower values indicate less perceived shared decision making, and higher scores indicate more perceived shared decision making. Self-reported responses from patients and clinicians will also be collected at multiple timepoints throughout the study.

Countries

United States

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORKonstantinos Leventakos, M.D., Ph.D.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Aug 21, 2026