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Trial reportJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2020

Effects of a Question Prompt Sheet on the Oncologist-Patient Relationship: a Multi-centred Randomised Controlled Trial in Breast Cancer.

Chiara Buizza, Alberto Ghilardi, Paola Mazzardi, Domenico Barbera, Veronica Fremondi, Alessandro Bottacini, Maria Angela Mazzi, Claudia Goss

Registry-linked trialAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01510964 (The Involvement of Breast Cancer Patients During Oncological Consultations. A Multi-centre Randomized Controlled Trial. The Study Protocol), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT01510964 nacompletednot on this map

The Involvement of Breast Cancer Patients During Oncological Consultations. A Multi-centre Randomized Controlled Trial. The Study Protocol

TypeinterventionalSponsorAzienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata VeronaRan2011 to 2013Enrolled300ConditionsBreast CancerArmsprompt-sheet, control group
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Optimizing the design and implementation of question prompt lists to support person-centred care: A scoping review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Chiara BuizzaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy. chiara.buizza@unibs.it.
Alberto GhilardiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Paola MazzardiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Domenico BarberaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Veronica FremondiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Alessandro BottaciniDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Piazzale LA. Scuro 10, 37134, Verona, Italy.
Maria Angela MazziDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Piazzale LA. Scuro 10, 37134, Verona, Italy.
Claudia GossDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Piazzale LA. Scuro 10, 37134, Verona, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed the effect of a question prompt sheet (QPS) on the oncologist-patient relationship as compared with a question listing (QL). In particular, the differences in difficulties perceived by the oncologist during the consultation and in the patient's experience of the therapeutic aspects of the relationship were assessed. A total of 324 patients with a recent diagnosis of early stage breast cancer were involved in the study. The results showed that 15.7% of patients were perceived as 'difficult' by the oncologists. The proportion of 'difficult' patients varied in the two groups: 20.6% in the QPS group versus 11.8% in the QL group. The results also showed that the higher the difficulty perceived by oncologists, the lower the satisfaction of patients for their relationship with the oncologists during the consultation (r = - .135, p = .033). It is likely that the higher level of difficulty perceived by the oncologist in the QPS group may be connected with the pre-prepared list of evidence-based questions. Further research is needed to understand which components of the interventions, relating to the patient, the oncologist or their interaction, really promote patient participation in cancer setting. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01510964. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01510964.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsOncologistsPatient ParticipationPhysician-Patient RelationsReferral and ConsultationAdultFemaleHumansMiddle AgedBreast cancerCommunicationDifficult patientsPatient satisfactionQuestion prompt sheetRelationship

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PMID30852786

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