NCT00983866

CHOICES: Understanding Clinical Trials as a Treatment Option

Increasing Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,376 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine whether having a telephone discussion with a nurse educator about making treatment decisions and participating in a clinical trial increases trial participation. The investigators hypothesize that the participants in the intervention group will be more likely to take part in a clinical trial than those in the usual care group.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tailored Telephone Counseling	The intervention is comprised of a letter introducing patients to the idea of participating in a clinical trial as a possible treatment option, followed by a telephone call by a nurse educator who describes the clinical trials process and answers any questions patients may have. The nurse educators will use a tailored counseling protocol that will enable them to conduct an assessment of patients' understanding about and interest in clinical trials and tailor messages according to patient health literacy and language. The protocol will consist of both proactive and reactive counseling. The nurse educator will have a general list of topics to cover but will tailor the discussion and information provided to individual patients' questions and desire for particular types of information.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2009-09-24
• Last updated: 2019-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States