Clinical trial NCT06068634: Patient-Centered Care Survey
Official title: Patient-Centered Care Survey of Infertility Patients
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Infertility
Keywords: Patient-centered care
Patient experience
Lead sponsor: Inception Fertility Research Institute, LLC
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
Collaborators: name: EMD Serono
First posted: 2023-10-05
Enrollment: 1500
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Infertility patients who have had any type of visit at a participating clinic within the last 6 months of the date of study initiation. Participating clinics are United States based fertility clinics who are part of The Prelude Network. This includes 10 fertility practices, consisting of approximately 40 individual locations.

Brief summary: The key to patient-centered care is to identify what the patient perceives as meaningful. The primary objective of this research is to evaluate which aspects of patient-centered care are priorities to infertility patients, and if those priorities vary by geographical region.

Detailed description: An electronic survey will be distributed to current patients within The Prelude Network, a network of fertility practices, for a total of six months. Survey responses will be collected anonymously using Survey Monkey. The survey is designed to collect information on patient preferences for patient-centered care. Participants will rank the importance of the different options within each Factor category (Clinic, Physician, Finance, and Staff). In addition, demographic questions are included and will be utilized to determine if these factors could have a significant impact on patient-centered care preferences. It is anticipated that at least 1,000 completed surveys will be collected. A similar survey was distributed to Prelude Network physicians. Patient and physician responses may be compared as part of additional data analysis.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Current patient within The Prelude Network (a network of fertility clinics).
* Has had any type of visit at a participating clinic within the last 6 months of the date of study initiation.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not a current patient at a participating clinic.
* Has not had an appointment within 6 months of the date of study initiation.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Descriptive Analysis
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Inception Fertility, LLC
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Inception Fertility
name: Alice Domar, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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