A Tool for Improving the Shared Decision-making Process in Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Study Summary

This clinical trial compares the use of a shared decision-making communication tool during a clinical encounter to standard care for improving the quality of the shared decision-making process among patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Lung cancer patients are faced with many decisions about their treatment options. Studies have found that patients are most satisfied if they perceive an effort by their physician to share decision making and are afforded sufficient time to make their decision. Shared decision-making tools can help physicians guide the conversation, offer tailored estimates of the potential benefits, harms, and practical inconveniences of the available options, and support deliberations that take into account patient biological and biographical circumstances, goals, and priorities. Incorporating a shared decision-making communication tool into standard clinical encounters may improve the shared-decision making process as well as patient satisfaction with their treatment choice.

Primary Outcome

Effectiveness of the intervention will be assessed using the 9-item Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDMQ-9) to evaluate standard of care alone versus using the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) conversation aid plus standard of care. The overall score is the sum of the 9 items, where lower values indicate less perceived shared decision making, and higher scores indicate more perceived shared decision making. Self-reported responses from patients and clinicians will also be collected at mu

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• OTHER Survey Administration
• OTHER Best Practice
• OTHER Communication Intervention
• OTHER Electronic Health Record Review
• OTHER Video Recording

Study Locations (1)