NCT03530969

Geriatric Communication Skills Training Program for Oncology Clinicians

Geriatric Communication Skills Training Program for Oncology Clinicians to Improve Management of Care for Geriatrics Cancer Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn more about the effects of a training program designed to help doctors communicate better with older patients and their caregivers.

Conditions

• GI Cancer
• Lymphoma
• GU Cancer
• Bone Marrow Transplant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Efficacy Assessment	Health Care Professional's self-efficacy will be assessed by 12 ratings of self-reported confidence from (1) "strongly disagree" to (5) "strongly agree" in module-specific topics both before and after the training.
BEHAVIORAL	UCLA Geriatrics Attitudes Scale	The UCLA Geriatrics Attitudes Scale is a 14-item scale developed to assess health care providers' attitudes toward older persons and caring for older patients.
BEHAVIORAL	Course Evaluations	The evaluation surveys for each of the three modules will contain fifteen statements assessing post-training attitudes regarding the skills learned and application of skills in oncology clinical practice, measured on a 5-point Likert scale.
BEHAVIORAL	The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) questionnaire	The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) questionnaire is a 10-item self-report scale that measures a patient's satisfaction with how empathic their health care providers (HCP) was within a specific consultation.
BEHAVIORAL	Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Program (CAHPS)	Patients" perceptions of the quality of their interactions with their clinicians will be rated with 6 items from the Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Program (CAHPS)
BEHAVIORAL	Patient activation measure (PAM) scale	The PAM scale contains 22 items that assess patient engagement in their care process.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-07
• Primary completion: 2024-02-16
• Completion: 2024-02-16
• First posted: 2018-05-21
• Last updated: 2024-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States