NCT02846870

Visually Enhanced Education About Prostate Cancer

Visually Enhanced Education About Prostate Cancer (VEEP-C): A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized clinical trial studies how well visually enhanced education works in improving prostate cancer and treatment knowledge in patients with prostate cancer that has not spread to other places in the body. Visually enhanced education includes pictures, drawings, and photos, may help doctors better convey information about radiation and prostate cancer to patients.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Our goal is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to determine the impact of a visual presentation in the context of a radiation oncologist's discussion with patient during consultation on patient satisfaction at end of consultation visit and at end of treatment, on anxiety at start of treatment, on decision regret following treatment, and on perception of side effects following treatment. Of note, the attending radiation oncologist will be responsible for reviewing the Powerpoint presentation with the patient, taking time to answer any questions that the patient has OUTLINE: Patients are randomized into 1 of 2 arms. ARM A (STANDARD EDUCATION): Patients receive a standard prostate cancer radiation oncology consultation. ARM B (VISUAL ENHANCED EDUCATION): Patients receive a visually enhanced prostate cancer educational Powerpoint presentation including prostate anatomy, pathologic results, surgical options, radiation therapy, and prognosis with pictographs during radiation oncology consultation.

Conditions

• Stage I Prostate Cancer
• Stage II Prostate Cancer
• Stage III Prostate Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Visually enhanced prostate cancer educational presentation	Receive visually enhanced prostate cancer educational presentation
OTHER	Standard prostate cancer education presentation	Receive standard prostate cancer education presentation

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2016-07-27
• Last updated: 2020-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States