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CompletedNCT04262596

Effectiveness of an Interactive Consulting System to Enhance Patients' Decision-making: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
492 (actual)
Sponsor
Sun Yat-sen University · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
50 Years – 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

To compare the effectiveness of an interactive mobile chatbot and traditional decision aid booklets to enhance informed decisions made by cataract patients. The chatbot was built based on large language models, and could generate ChatGPT-level responses.

Detailed description

Cataract surgery is the only way to treat age-related cataract. For patients at early or moderate stages, cataract surgery is an elective surgery without objective indications. Therefore, patients are uaually not aware whether they should receive the surgery or not. In clinical practice, traditional Patient Decision Aids (PDA) booklets are used to provide health education to patients. However, PDAs lack real-time interaction with patients, and are unable to answer the new questions raised. Patients still have doubts about whether they should receive cataract surgery or not. In this study, the investigators aim to assess the effectiveness of an interactive Q\&A mobile application based on natural language processing technology to enhance informed decisions made by cataract patients.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERInteractive Consulting SystemPotential participants use the Interactive Consulting System on a mobile application with information about cataract surgery choice, and outcome data will be gathered using standardized questions in a structured interview after 2 weeks.
OTHERA traditional patient decision aid brochurePotential participants receive a traditional patient decision aid brochure with information about cataract surgery choice, and outcome data will be gathered using standardized questions in a structured interview after 2 weeks.

Timeline

Start date
2023-05-01
Primary completion
2023-08-31
Completion
2023-08-31
First posted
2020-02-10
Last updated
2023-12-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04262596. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.