NCT06490224

Measuring and Displaying the Subjective

Can the Subjective Aspects of Health be Measured and Visually Displayed Without Harming Patient Experience: A Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators developed a brief set of subjective health measures designed to feel more relevant to patients seeking musculoskeletal specialty care, presented the scores to patients and clinicians using an easy-to-understand visual display, and measured whether or not this process harmed patient experience.

Detailed description

Musculoskeletal patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs; measures of levels of discomfort and incapability) were originally designed as tools for clinical research as were other self-reported measures of the subjective aspects of illness such as mental health measures. PROMs and mental health measures are increasingly used in clinical practice with individual patients. A few areas for improvement are noted in the use of questionnaires in musculoskeletal specialty care, including relevancy, understandability, and their confusing use in heath strategies. The investigators sought to assess the impact of an enhanced and more personalized self-reported health measurement strategy to address some of these opportunities by developing a brief set of items addressing levels of discomfort, incapability, mental, and social health designed to feel relevant to musculoskeletal specialty care and resulting in an easy-to-understand display that can be a communication tool for patients and clinicians.

Conditions

• Physician-Patient Relations
• Communication Research

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Relevant Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)	Depending on the participant's complaint: Hip disability and osteoarthritis outcome score JR (HOOS JR), Knee disability and osteoarthritis outcome score JR (KOOS JR), Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand, Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (QUICKDASH), Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9), General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD7), Patient Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ-2), Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS Global 10)
OTHER	My Whole Health Map	Short visual map of responses to 10 questions of subjective measures.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-19
• Primary completion: 2024-02-27
• Completion: 2024-04-06
• First posted: 2024-07-08
• Last updated: 2024-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States