NCT06722846

Communicating Health Options to Inform Care and Empower Strategic Care Planning (CHOICES): A Multi-layer Randomized Case Vignette Study.

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

To learn more about how the delivery of medical information affects therapy choices for participants with advanced forms of cancer.

Detailed description

Primary Objectives • To examine how provision of medical information (risks, benefits, time toxicity, prognosis, oncologists' recommendation, and costs) affects preference for palliative systemic therapy in participants with advanced cancer. Secondary Objective • To examine how different options of medical information (risks/benefits, time toxicity, prognosis, oncologists' recommendation, and costs) affect preference for palliative systemic therapy in participants with advanced cancer. Exploratory Objective * To examine how the order of presentation of medical information affects preference for palliative systemic therapy in participants with advanced cancer. * To examine the association between intrinsic participants characteristics (such as participants demographics, symptoms, anxiety, depression, illness understanding, acceptance, coping strategies, religious coping, hope, decision making style, trust in oncologist, financial distress) and preference for palliative systemic therapy in participants with advanced cancer.

Conditions

• Health Options
• Strategic Care Planning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Randomized Case Vignette Study	Particpants will complete about 16 questionnaires that will have questions about particpants quality of life, anxiety, health, andcase scenarios that are not real or based on particpants actual health situation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-21
• Primary completion: 2026-08-31
• Completion: 2028-08-31
• First posted: 2024-12-09
• Last updated: 2026-03-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States