Effectiveness of DECIDE in Patient-Provider Communication, Therapeutic Alliance & Care Continuation
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01947283. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to learn more about how patients and healthcare providers interact in order to improve shared decision making. The investigators plan to test an intervention with two separate educational components-one for patients and one for providers-designed to encourage patients to ask questions and increase their level of involvement in their own care, while simultaneously training providers to be more receptive to patients' questions and concerns. Patients in the intervention group will receive three short (30-45 minute) trainings focused on developing and asking questions and will be interviewed three times over the course of the intervention to see how it has affected the quality of their care. Providers receiving the intervention will participate in three separate trainings, including a 12-hour group workshop, an additional two hour training, and six hours of individual instruction, including personalized feedback based on three audio-recorded patient visits. Previous studies looking at patient engagement and involvement in decision-making have shown that increased engagement is linked with improved outcomes, but that providers are sometimes not prepared to develop a collaborative relationship with patients. The investigators think that training both patients and providers to work together and communicate more effectively will improve quality of care and increase patient satisfaction more than interventions that focus on only one side of the clinical encounter. One of the major goals in studying patient-provider communication is to improve shared decision-making and see how it contributes to racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care, since minority patients have been shown to be less involved in care and have been shown to be perceived and treated differently by providers.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01947283
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 481 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 2013 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Oct 2016 (Actual)
- Completion
- Oct 2016 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Mar 8, 2019
2013 – 2016
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 8
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Cove Community Health Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02111 | — |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| South End Community Health Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02118 | — |
| Family Services of Greater Boston | Boston | Massachusetts | 02130 | — |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Ambulatory Psychiatry Unit) | Boston | Massachusetts | 02215 | — |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Latino Mental Health) | Boston | Massachusetts | 02215 | — |
| Cambridge Health Alliance (Windsor Clinic, Macht Building, Central Street, Malden Primary Care Mental Health) | Cambridge | Massachusetts | 02139 | — |
| Edward M Kennedy Health Center (Great Brook Valley Health Center) | Worcester | Massachusetts | 01605 | — |
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