Trial reportBMC cancer2017
Communication about uncertainty and hope: A randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of a communication skills training program for physicians caring for cancer patients.
Trial report in BMC cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02836197 (Communication About Uncertainty and Hope), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Communication About Uncertainty and Hope: A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Efficacy of a Communication Skills Training Program for Physicians Caring for Cancer Patients
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Communication skills training for healthcare professionals working with people who have cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
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- Communicating uncertainty: A step in the right direction?Pediatric blood & cancer · 2021Article
- Immunotherapy discontinuation - how, and when? Data from melanoma as a paradigm.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2020Review
- Development and validation of a nomogram in survival prediction among advanced breast cancer patients.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
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- Job stress and its related factors among Korean dentists: An online survey study.International dental journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough previous studies have reported the efficacy of communication skills training (CST) programs, specific training addressing communication about uncertainty and hope in oncology has not yet been studied. This paper describes the study protocol of a randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of a CST program aimed at improving physician ability to communicate about uncertainty and hope in encounters with cancer patients. METHODS/
designPhysician participants will be randomly assigned in groups (n = 3/group) to a 30-h CST program (experimental group) or to a waiting list (control group). The training program will include learner-centered, skills-focused, practice-oriented techniques. Training efficacy is assessed in the context of an encounter with a simulated advanced stage cancer patient at baseline and after the CST for the experimental group, and after four months for the waiting-list group. Efficacy assessments will include communicational, psychological and physiological measures. Group-by-time effects will be analyzed using a generalized estimating equation (GEE). A power analysis indicated that a sample size of 60 (30 experimental and 30 control) participants will be sufficient to detect effects. DISCUSSION: The current study will aid in the development of effective CST programs to improve physician ability to communicate about uncertainty and hope in encounters with cancer patients.
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