Narrative MedicineNCT03494075
MyPaTH Story Booth
An observational study of Narrative Medicine, run by University of Pittsburgh at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The MyPaTH Story Booth will use an (audio) "document" approach to elicit in depth experiential knowledge or perspectives from patients and caregivers by recording their personal stories. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 99 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Narrative Medicine
- How many people
- 2,000 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Mar 2016to Jun 2030
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 99 years
- All sexes
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Anyone over the age of 18 who can provide informed consent
Who may be able to join
- Over the age of 18
Who cannot join
- Researchers will exclude individuals who are not 18 years of age or older and/or do not provide informed consent
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213
Emily L Klawson, MS, 412-586-9796, EKK15@pitt.edu
Kathleen M McTigue, MD, MS, MPH
About this study
The MyPaTH Story Booth will use an (audio) "document" approach to elicit in depth experiential knowledge or perspectives from patients and caregivers by recording their personal stories.
Read the detailed description
Modeled after the Storycorps project and healthtalk.org, MyPaTH Story Booth will use an (audio) "document" approach to elicit in depth experiential knowledge or perspectives from patients and caregivers by recording their personal stories. Narratives provide a powerful framework for understanding patient problems and the larger process of illness, coping, and seeking health care. Narratives can provide meaning, context, and perspective for patients' situations and insight into failures in health care delivery, particularly for marginalized patients. MyPaTH Story Booth will provide simple instructions for how participants can work with an interview partner (e.g., a family member or friend) to record their story. MyPath Story Booth may be launched sequentially at each PaTH site to establish an initial archive of patient and caregiver narratives. Individuals who record narratives will be asked to provide limited "tags" to populate a searchable database (e.g., their age, sex, interview topic). The audio booth and procedures will also be made available to PaTH affiliated researchers who wish to augment the narrative database with narratives of patient partners from specific study populations.
- Conditions
- Narrative Medicine
- Keywords
- Patients, Caregivers
- Medical subject headings
- Narrative Medicine
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Number of stories collected
The goal of the project is to generate a searchable archive of patient and caregiver narratives
Measured: September 2018
Secondary outcomes (3)
Comparison of approaches to categorize story contents
Researchers will compare how story contents are categorized using (a) qualitative research coding with survey data collected from (b) participants and (c) study staff
Measured: Cross-sectional analysis of the first 100 stories, September 2018
Number of researchers who access the online story archive
To support health researchers' use of patient and caregiver narratives in formulating research questions
Measured: Annually at 2 and 3 years of follow-up the number of researchers who accessed stories will be reviewed.
Number of research teams who engage stakeholders through the project
The project aims to facilitate connections between individuals who have real-world insights and experience with health care or health care delivery and health researchers.
Measured: Annually at 2 and 3 years of follow-up
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted11 Apr 2018
- Study startMar 2016
- Primary completionJun 2030 (estimated)
- Study completionJun 2030 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (3)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Narrative MedicineStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of PittsburghThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Enrolment
- 2,000 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Kathleen McTigue, University of Pittsburgh
- Investigators
- Kathleen M McTigue, MD, Principal investigator, University of Pittsburgh
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03494075
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- STUDY20110315
- Status last verified
- Jun 2026
- First submitted
- 23 Aug 2017
- Last updated
- 11 Jun 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Hamm M, Wilson JD, Lee YJ, Norman N, Winstanley EL, McTigue KM. Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Nov;128:108384. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108384. Epub 2024 Aug 9.
PubMed 39168050Shah VK, Hamm M, Glynn NW, Rockette-Wagner B, McTigue K. Comparing survey data to qualitative themes in patient stories to help researchers better identify pressing community healthcare needs. J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Aug;29(5):793-801. doi: 10.1111/jep.13837. Epub 2023 Mar 24.
PubMed 36961380McTigue KM, Fear D, Hunter K, Karanam S, Uhrig J, Alston T, Dillon S, Faust J, Kim J, LaRosa A, Postol B, Umegbolu S, Hamm M. The development of a patient and caregiver narrative archive to support patient-centered research. Eur J Pers Cent Healthc. 2018 Dec;6(4):565-570. doi: 10.5750/ejpch.v6i4.1546
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 11 Jun 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- MyPaTH Story Booth
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03494075
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- STUDY20110315
- Conditions
- Narrative Medicine
- Keywords
- Patients, Caregivers
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 2,000 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of PittsburghUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Mar 2016
- Primary completion
- Jun 2030 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Jun 2030 (estimated)
- First posted
- 11 Apr 2018 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The MyPaTH Story Booth will use an (audio) "document" approach to elicit in depth experiential knowledge or perspectives from patients and caregivers by recording their personal stories.
Detailed description
Modeled after the Storycorps project and healthtalk.org, MyPaTH Story Booth will use an (audio) "document" approach to elicit in depth experiential knowledge or perspectives from patients and caregivers by recording their personal stories. Narratives provide a powerful framework for understanding patient problems and the larger process of illness, coping, and seeking health care. Narratives can provide meaning, context, and perspective for patients' situations and insight into failures in health care delivery, particularly for marginalized patients. MyPaTH Story Booth will provide simple instructions for how participants can work with an interview partner (e.g., a family member or friend) to record their story. MyPath Story Booth may be launched sequentially at each PaTH site to establish an initial archive of patient and caregiver narratives. Individuals who record narratives will be asked to provide limited "tags" to populate a searchable database (e.g., their age, sex, interview topic). The audio booth and procedures will also be made available to PaTH affiliated researchers who wish to augment the narrative database with narratives of patient partners from specific study populations.
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Prospective
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 99 years
- Sex
- All
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Anyone over the age of 18 who can provide informed consent
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Over the age of 18
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Researchers will exclude individuals who are not 18 years of age or older and/or do not provide informed consent
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Primary outcome
Number of stories collected
Time frame: September 2018
The goal of the project is to generate a searchable archive of patient and caregiver narratives
3 secondary outcomes
Comparison of approaches to categorize story contents
Time frame: Cross-sectional analysis of the first 100 stories, September 2018
Number of researchers who access the online story archive
Time frame: Annually at 2 and 3 years of follow-up the number of researchers who accessed stories will be reviewed.
Number of research teams who engage stakeholders through the project
Time frame: Annually at 2 and 3 years of follow-up
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 11 Jun 2026.
- Results publication: PubMed 39168050Hamm M, Wilson JD, Lee YJ, Norman N, Winstanley EL, McTigue KM. Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Nov;128:108384. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108384. Epub 2024 Aug 9.
- Results publication: PubMed 36961380Shah VK, Hamm M, Glynn NW, Rockette-Wagner B, McTigue K. Comparing survey data to qualitative themes in patient stories to help researchers better identify pressing community healthcare needs. J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Aug;29(5):793-801. doi: 10.1111/jep.13837. Epub 2023 Mar 24.
- Results publicationMcTigue KM, Fear D, Hunter K, Karanam S, Uhrig J, Alston T, Dillon S, Faust J, Kim J, LaRosa A, Postol B, Umegbolu S, Hamm M. The development of a patient and caregiver narrative archive to support patient-centered research. Eur J Pers Cent Healthc. 2018 Dec;6(4):565-570. doi: 10.5750/ejpch.v6i4.1546
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Kathleen M McTigue, MD principal investigator
University of Pittsburgh
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Narrative Medicine, run by University of Pittsburgh at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Jun 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Emily L Klawsson, MS (412-586-9796, EKK15@pitt.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Number of stories collected (time frame: September 2018). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03494075, which also lists 3 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 11 Jun 2026.