Clinical trial · Interventional
Providing Patient Information and CT Examination Results
Providing Patients With Extended Information and Examination Results Immediately After a Diagnostic CT of the Coronary Arteries
- 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)
Chest pain is a common cause of visits in the Emergency Room and General Practice, and is most commonly connected as a symptom of coronary disease, as for instance angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarct. Approximately 75-80% of these patients are not diagnosed with coronary disease or other cardiac findings. However, many of these patients still report chest pain and worries about cardiac disease. This study is based on patients that are referred to a CT-examination of the coronary arteries on the background of chest pain, where the CT-examination shows normal coronary arteries. The study aims to evaluate whether providing an intervention to this group of patients has an effect on patient satisfaction, patient's worry of cardiac disease and incidence of chest pain. The intervention group will be compared with a similar group going through the same CT-examination, but is receiving the examination result from their regular general practitioner (RGP), which is considered standard care. The hypothesis is that patients with chest pain with no coronary findings receiving extended information before getting the normal examination results experience a better patient satisfaction than those receiving the examination result from their RGP.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chest Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Nonmalignant Condition | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extended information | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention Group
- description
- The participants in the intervention group will be provided with extended information of the advantages of the CT examination of the heart's arteries. This will be given to the participants both orally and written in form of a leaflet. In addition will they be given the opportunity for a visual go-through of their own calcium score images. After this they will be informed of the normal examination result.
- interventionNames
- Other: Extended information
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control group
- description
- Control Group receives standard care.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Patient satisfaction: Seattle Angina Questionnaire
- timeFrame
- 1 month
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 80 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * ability to speak and read Norwegian fluently * competent to give informed consent * referred from cardiologist * experienced chest pain * Calcium score = 0 and CCTA must show normal coronary arteries * received information letter on ongoing research in the Heart department of Haukeland University Hospital Exclusion Criteria: * admitted patients * heart disease or coronary anomalies shown on the CCTA
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDKrohn IL, Rygh CB, Larsen TH, Wentzel-Larsen T, Norekval TM. Effect of radiographer-led intervention on reassurance, treatment satisfaction, and recurring chest pain in patients with a normal coronary computed tomography angiography-a randomized controlled trial. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2022 Jun 2;21(4):318-324. doi: 10.1093/eurjcn/zvab064. PMID 34601588