personalized information or basic information in helping patients make decisions about participating in a clinical trial

Conditions: Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors; Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Lymphoproliferative Disorder; Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm; Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms; Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Summary: rationale: providing information that is tailored to answer patients' questions about clinical trials may help patients with cancer decide to enroll in a clinical trial. it is not known whether providing personalized information is more effective than basic information in helping patients make decisions about clinical trials. purpose: this randomized phase iii trial is studying personalized information to see how well it works compared with basic information in helping patients make decisions about participating in a clinical trial.

objectives: primary * to improve preparation for consideration of clinical trials by providing tailored information to address barriers related to knowledge, goals and values, and beliefs and expectancies before their physician visit in patients with advanced metastatic or early stage cancer. secondary * to develop and pilot test a tailored interactive preparatory aid (pre-act) to promote informed cancer treatment decision making by addressing barriers to considering clinical trials as a treatment option. * to evaluate the efficacy of pre-act in improving preparation for considering participation in clinical trials by conducting a randomized clinical trial to compare pre-act vs generic clinical trial information with text (control condition). * to investigate relevant background and psychosocial variables that are associated with preparedness, barriers, and treatment outcomes. * to investigate the impact of pre-act on patient decisional conflict, satisfaction with information received, satisfaction with discussion about clinical trials with the physician, satisfaction with the treatment decision, clinical trials discussion, clinical trials participation, and quality of informed consent. outline: this is a multicenter study. patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. * arm i (pre-act): patients receive tailored feedback and video content to address clinical trial barriers following baseline assessment. * arm ii (control): patients receive generic clinical trials educational feedback taken from nci publications following baseline assessment. all patients complete a baseline assessment to assess demographics, personal characteristics, preparedness, and barriers to clinical trials. all patients also undergo a post-intervention assessment and complete a survey to measure preparedness for consideration of clinical trials, and impact of the intervention on clinical trials barriers. a brief patient post-consultation assessment is completed by patients within two weeks of the physician consultation to determine whether clinical trials were discussed, patient satisfaction with discussion about clinical trials, treatment options, treatment selection, decisional conflict, and satisfaction with treatment decision. quality of informed consent is also assessed for patients participating in a clinical trial and completing the consent process during their initial physician consultation. each patient's physician completes a brief physician post-consultation assessment to define cancer stage, treatment goal, and to determine whether clinical trials were offered and accepted and if not, why not. for patients who have not made a treatment decision after consultation, a brief follow-up phone survey or medical chart review is used to identify the patient's treatment choice.

Eligibility criteria:
disease characteristics: * diagnosis of 1 of the following: * advanced (metastatic) disease * early stage (i.e., appropriate for adjuvant therapy) disease * scheduled for first outpatient consultation with a medical oncologist at the clinical centers patient characteristics: * able to read and verbally communicate in english * patients who choose to complete the intervention at home rather than at the clinical center before their visit must have high-speed (i.e., dsl or cable) internet access prior concurrent therapy: * not specified

Keywords: unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia acute undifferentiated leukemia adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (mll) abnormalities adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22) atypical chronic myeloid leukemia, bcr-abl1 negative blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission childhood acute myeloid leukemia in remission childhood chronic myelogenous leukemia chronic myelomonocytic leukemia chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia mast cell leukemia meningeal chronic myelogenous leukemia progressive hairy cell leukemia, initial treatment prolymphocytic leukemia recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia recurrent adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma recurrent childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia recurrent childhood acute myeloid leukemia refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia refractory hairy cell leukemia relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia secondary acute myeloid leukemia stage 0 chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage i adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma stage i chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage ii adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma stage ii chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage iii adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma stage iii chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage iv adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma stage iv chronic lymphocytic leukemia t-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia untreated adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia untreated adult acute myeloid leukemia untreated childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia untreated childhood acute myeloid leukemia and other myeloid malignancies untreated hairy cell leukemia aids-related diffuse large cell lymphoma aids-related diffuse mixed cell lymphoma aids-related diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma aids-related immunoblastic large cell lymphoma aids-related lymphoblastic lymphoma aids-related peripheral/systemic lymphoma aids-related primary cns lymphoma aids-related small noncleaved cell lymphoma hiv-associated hodgkin lymphoma recurrent adult hodgkin lymphoma recurrent/refractory childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage i adult hodgkin lymphoma stage i childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage ii adult hodgkin lymphoma stage ii childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage iii adult hodgkin lymphoma stage iii childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage iv adult hodgkin lymphoma stage iv childhood hodgkin lymphoma anaplastic large cell lymphoma angioimmunoblastic t-cell lymphoma cutaneous b-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma recurrent cutaneous t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma stage i cutaneous t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma stage ii cutaneous t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma stage iii cutaneous t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma stage iv cutaneous t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma recurrent mycosis fungoides/sezary syndrome stage i mycosis fungoides/sezary syndrome stage ii mycosis fungoides/sezary syndrome stage iii mycosis fungoides/sezary syndrome stage iv mycosis fungoides/sezary syndrome adult grade iii lymphomatoid granulomatosis adult nasal type extranodal nk/t-cell lymphoma waldenstrom macroglobulinemia extranodal marginal zone b-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue nodal marginal zone b-cell lymphoma splenic marginal zone lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult burkitt lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult diffuse large cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult lymphoblastic lymphoma contiguous stage ii grade 1 follicular lymphoma contiguous stage ii grade 2 follicular lymphoma contiguous stage ii grade 3 follicular lymphoma contiguous stage ii mantle cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii marginal zone lymphoma contiguous stage ii small lymphocytic lymphoma stage i adult burkitt lymphoma stage i adult diffuse large cell lymphoma stage i adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma stage i adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma stage i adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma stage i adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage i grade 1 follicular lymphoma stage i grade 2 follicular lymphoma stage i grade 3 follicular lymphoma stage i mantle cell lymphoma stage i marginal zone lymphoma stage i small lymphocytic lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult burkitt lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult diffuse large cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult lymphoblastic lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii grade 1 follicular lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii grade 2 follicular lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii grade 3 follicular lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii mantle cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii marginal zone lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii small lymphocytic lymphoma stage i childhood large cell lymphoma stage i childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma stage i childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage ii childhood large cell lymphoma stage ii childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma stage ii childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage iii adult burkitt lymphoma stage iii adult diffuse large cell lymphoma stage iii adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma stage iii adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma stage iii adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma stage iii adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iii childhood large cell lymphoma stage iii childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iii childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage iii grade 1 follicular lymphoma stage iii grade 2 follicular lymphoma stage iii grade 3 follicular lymphoma stage iii mantle cell lymphoma stage iii marginal zone lymphoma stage iii small lymphocytic lymphoma stage iv adult burkitt lymphoma stage iv adult diffuse large cell lymphoma stage iv adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma stage iv adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma stage iv adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma stage iv adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iv childhood large cell lymphoma stage iv childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iv childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage iv grade 1 follicular lymphoma stage iv grade 2 follicular lymphoma stage iv grade 3 follicular lymphoma stage iv mantle cell lymphoma stage iv marginal zone lymphoma stage iv small lymphocytic lymphoma recurrent adult burkitt lymphoma recurrent adult diffuse large cell lymphoma recurrent adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma recurrent adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma recurrent adult grade iii lymphomatoid granulomatosis recurrent adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma recurrent adult lymphoblastic lymphoma recurrent childhood grade iii lymphomatoid granulomatosis recurrent childhood large cell lymphoma recurrent childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma recurrent childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma recurrent grade 1 follicular lymphoma recurrent grade 2 follicular lymphoma recurrent grade 3 follicular lymphoma recurrent mantle cell lymphoma recurrent marginal zone lymphoma recurrent small lymphocytic lymphoma burkitt lymphoma childhood diffuse large cell lymphoma childhood grade iii lymphomatoid granulomatosis childhood immunoblastic large cell lymphoma childhood nasal type extranodal nk/t-cell lymphoma intraocular lymphoma primary central nervous system non-hodgkin lymphoma primary central nervous system hodgkin lymphoma post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder chronic eosinophilic leukemia chronic neutrophilic leukemia primary myelofibrosis essential thrombocythemia polycythemia vera extramedullary plasmacytoma isolated plasmacytoma of bone stage i multiple myeloma stage ii multiple myeloma stage iii multiple myeloma primary systemic amyloidosis refractory multiple myeloma de novo myelodysplastic syndromes previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes secondary myelodysplastic syndromes myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable childhood myelodysplastic syndromes recurrent childhood anaplastic large cell lymphoma stage i childhood anaplastic large cell lymphoma stage ii childhood anaplastic large cell lymphoma stage iii childhood anaplastic large cell lymphoma stage iv childhood anaplastic large cell lymphoma