NCT03676920

Feasibility and Utilization of an Application-based Question Prompt List

Improving Treatment Cost Discussions Between Cancer Patients and Their Oncologists: Feasibility and Utilization of an Application-based Question Prompt List

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial studies how well an application-based question prompt list works in improving treatment cost discussion between patients with breast, prostate, lung, or colorectal cancer and their oncologists. An application-based question prompt list, called Discussion of Cost Application (DISCO App), may help to improve how patients and oncologists discuss cancer treatment costs.

Detailed description

The overall goal of this research is to reduce financial toxicity related to the cost of cancer treatment in a diverse patient population. The research tests the feasibility of an application-based ("app") communication intervention designed to improve the frequency and quality of patient-oncologist treatment cost discussions during clinical interactions, which, in turn, should improve other short- and longer-term patient outcomes, including referrals to economic support (e.g., social work); efficacy in managing treatment cost; treatment cost distress; financial toxicity; and treatment adherence. If successful, this study will result in an evidence-based tool that can reduce financial toxicity and improve medical outcomes for a diverse patient population.

Conditions

• Financial Toxicity
• Cancer
• Question Prompt List

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Discussions of Cost App (DISCO App)	The DISCO App is an app-based and patient-focused intervention designed to improve the frequency and quality of patient-oncologist treatment cost discussions. The DISCO App allows patients to provide basic demographic information (e.g., employment status, insurance status, etc), and uses that information to provide patients with an individually-tailored list of treatment cost questions they can ask their provider.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-21
• Primary completion: 2019-12-31
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2018-09-19
• Last updated: 2024-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States