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Effectiveness of DECIDE in Patient-Provider Communication, Therapeutic Alliance & Care Continuation

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01947283

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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

Interventions

Behavioral

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
Aug 31, 2013
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2016
Completion
Sep 30, 2016
Last update posted
Mar 7, 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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