Clinical trial NCT00712569: Physician-Patient Communication About Breast Cancer-Related Internet Information and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Anxiety
Official title: Physician-Patient Communication About Breast Cancer-Related Internet Information and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Anxiety
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Breast Cancer
Keywords: Communication
Internet
Physician
Patient
08-079
Lead sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2008-07-10
Enrollment: 85
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CROSSOVER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: physicians at the Breast Service and their patients will be recruited to participate in this study.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to learn about how patients who have looked up cancer-related information on the internet talk with their doctors. We are interested in these conversations even if the patients do not think they will talk about the information with their doctor during their visit. We will audio record doctor-patient visits and listen to these recordings to learn about how patients who have looked up cancer-related internet information talk to their doctors and how their doctors talk to them. We will also give patients questionnaires before and after their appointments to learn about what they think about communicating with their doctors.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Subject Inclusion Criteria for Patients

* Female
* Diagnosis of breast cancer
* Pre-surgery (\*for breast surgeon patients only)
* Report that they have read breast cancer-related internet information since their diagnosis with breast cancer.
* Provide informed consent

Subject Inclusion Criteria Physicians

* Breast surgeon or breast medical oncologist
* Agree to participate in study and one of 10 selected participants
* Provide inform consent

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion Criteria for Patients

* Less than 21 years of age
* Cognitive or physical impairment rendering patients incapable of providing informed consent to participate in the study
* As the measures and coding system are all written in English, subjects who are not fluent in English will be excluded.

Exclusion Criteria for Physicians

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: patients in Category 1 (those who have been recorded discussing internet information with their physician) are pt satisfaction & pt anxiety. PT satisfaction with the consultation is an outcome assessed only at the end of the consultation.
timeFrame: conclusion of the study
measure: To examine the effect of physician responses to cancer-related internet information on patient satisfaction and anxiety. (Category 1 patients).
timeFrame: conclusion of study
Secondary outcomes:
measure: To identify cancer patients' reasons for not discussing cancer-related internet information with their physicians. (Category 2 and 3 patients).
timeFrame: conclusion of study
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Commack
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Commack
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
state: New York
city: Sleepy Hollow
country: United States
facility: Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center@Phelps
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
name: Smita Banerjee, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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