Clinical trial · Interventional
Supporting Doctor-patient Communication in Oncology
Supporting Doctor-patient Communication in Oncology. A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of Question Prompt List and Audio Recording as Communication Aids in Oncology Consultation
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Aims of study While various communication aids have been evaluated separately, no studies have taken a coordinated approach combining aids with different goals to evaluate their combined impact. In this study the investigators will use two communication aids; a QPL and an audio recording of the consultation. QPLs includes question concerning treatment options, but few studies involving QPLs have explored whether QPLs result in patients taking a more active role in the consultation. To our knowledge there have not been studies which objectively try to explore whether patients receiving QPLs participates in shared decision making to a greater extent, except for one ongoing Italian trial of breast cancer patients. To explore and describe how communication aids as a QPL and an audio recording of the consultation improve the first doctor-patient consultation at the oncology outpatient clinic by 1. Encouraging patients/caregivers to ask more questions, particularly about sensitive topics such as prognosis (as an effect of QPL alone) 2. Increasing shared decision-making (as an effect of QPL alone) 3. Improving overall satisfaction with the consultation and information retrieved (as an effect of both communication aids) 4. Affecting quality of life/anxiety/depression (as an effect of both communication aids)
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication aids | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Communication aids
- description
- Patients in the intervention group will receive the QPL at home in advance of the consultation along with information about the clinic.The consultations will be recorded in both the control and intervention group. The recording will be done on the computer, and the patients in the intervention group will be given the recording immediately after the consultation on a memory stick.
- interventionNames
- Other: Communication aids
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control group
- description
- No intervention.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Difference in number of questions asked, and especially concerning prognosis.
- timeFrame
- At day of first consultation
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 75 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Norwegian speaking cancer patients at their first consultation at the outpatient clinic with newly diagnosed cancer or relapse of cancer. * Age 18 and above who has given written informed consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Mental impairment which will make informed consent difficult to retrieve. * Not having access to computer/device to listen to audio file.
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