Clinical trial · Interventional
Improving Cancer Patients' Insurance Choices
Supporting Cancer Survivors' Health Insurance Marketplace Decisions
- 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)
The goal of this research study is to find out if a decision aid (DA) created by investigators, I Can PIC, is effective in helping cancer patients make decisions about their health insurance. The investigators will evaluate I Can PIC compared to an attention control condition (existing website created by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network). The study hypothesis is that those randomly assigned to I Can PIC will have higher knowledge about health insurance terms and details, more certainty about the best health insurance plan for them, and more confidence in their health insurance decisions compared to those randomly assigned to the control condition.
Conditions
Conditions (5)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Health Insurance | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Health Literacy | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Health Services Accessibility | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Informed Decision Making | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Can PIC | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- I Can PIC
- description
- The I Can PIC website will be provided to participants randomized to the experimental/intervention group.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: I Can PIC
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Attention Control
- description
- Participants randomized to the attention control group will be provided a link to a website developed by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
Primary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Knowledge Score
- timeFrame
- Completed immediately after using I Can PIC
- description
- The percent correct out of eight questions that were created by the research team based on information that is considered vital to making health insurance decisions.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 64 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Ability to read English * Diagnosed with cancer in the past 5 years * Residing in Missouri or Illinois Exclusion Criteria: * Eligible for Medicaid or Medicare in Missouri or Illinois * Enrolled in the following types of health insurance plans: Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE or other military healthcare, or Indian Health Services
References
Publications (3)
- BACKGROUNDHousten AJ, Furtado K, Kaphingst KA, Kebodeaux C, McBride T, Cusanno B, Politi MC. Stakeholders' perceptions of ways to support decisions about health insurance marketplace enrollment: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2016 Nov 8;16(1):634. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1890-8. PMID 27821121
- BACKGROUNDPoliti MC, Barker AR, Kaphingst KA, McBride T, Shacham E, Kebodeaux CS. Show Me My Health Plans: a study protocol of a randomized trial testing a decision support tool for the federal health insurance marketplace in Missouri. BMC Health Serv Res. 2016 Feb 16;16:55. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1314-9. PMID 26880251
- BACKGROUNDPoliti MC, Kuzemchak MD, Liu J, Barker AR, Peters E, Ubel PA, Kaphingst KA, McBride T, Kreuter MW, Shacham E, Philpott SE. Show Me My Health Plans: Using a Decision Aid to Improve Decisions in the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace. MDM Policy Pract. 2016 Jul;1(1):2381468316679998. doi: 10.1177/2381468316679998. Epub 2016 Nov 16. PMID 28804780