Intervention Study of Communication in Oncologist-Patient Encounters
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Official title
The COPE Trial: Communication in Oncologist-Patient Encounters
Brief summary
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The overall goal of this study is to improve communication between patients with advanced cancer and their oncologists. A web-based communication intervention will be delivered to patients to help them to express their negative emotions and elicit empathic responses from their oncologists. The specific aims are to: AIM 1: Develop a web-based intervention that trains patients with advanced cancer to express their emotional concerns to their oncologists and to request emotional support during clinical encounters. AIM 2: Test whether this intervention can increase patient expression of emotional concerns and requests for emotional support, as well as improve patient affect by decreasing negative emotions.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00994578
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 659 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 31, 2010
- Primary completion
- Mar 31, 2014
- Completion
- Mar 31, 2014
- Last update posted
- Sep 11, 2014
2010 – 2014
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University Health System | Durham | North Carolina | 27705 | — |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15213-2582 | — |
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