NCT00148655

Educational Interventions for Patients With DCIS

A Randomized Trial for Educational Interventions for Patients With DCIS Actually Making Treatment Decisions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding an educational intervention, in the form of a decision board, which outlines the risks and benefits of treatment options for DCIS, at the time of the first surgical consultation will improve decision making for women with DCIS.

Detailed description

* The decision board explains the risks and benefits of mastectomy, excision and radiation, excision, radiation, and tamoxifen, excision alone, and excision without radiation and tamoxifen for women with DCIS. * Patients will receive a decision board to take home for review. Two fifteen-minute telephone interviews will be conducted, one approximately one week after enrollment and one 2 months after enrollment. * In the phone interviews, patients will asked to complete a brief survey. This survey will ask abou DCIS in general, the patient's treatment decisions, their feelings, as well as their experience with the decision board. * This study will take about 2 months.

Conditions

• DCIS

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Decision Board	Decision board that explains the risks and benefits of treatment options

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-05-01
• Primary completion: 2006-08-01
• Completion: 2006-08-01
• First posted: 2005-09-08
• Last updated: 2007-12-28

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States