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Oesophageal CancerSOURCENCT04232735

Evidence Based Information Provision to Improve Decision Making After Oesophagogastric Cancer Diagnosis (SOURCE)

A study testing Tool and training in people with Oesophageal Cancer and Gastric Cancer, run by Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) at 12 sites in Netherlands.

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Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

The overarching aim of the programme 'Stimulating evidence based, personalized and tailored information provision to improve decision making after oesophagogastric cancer diagnosis' (SOURCE) is to provide oesophagogastric cancer patients at all disease stages with evidence based and personalized information about… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Oesophageal Cancer, Gastric Cancer
What is being tested?
Tool and training
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
126 participants
Where
12 sitesNetherlands
Study dates
13 Oct 2020to 30 Sep 2023
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Health care providers:
  • Specialist, physician assistant or nurse practitioner in the field of oncology, oncological radiotherapy or oncological surgery who are used to discussing treatment and treatment outcome with patients
  • Informed consent for data collection
  • Three audiorecorded treatment information consultations with oesophageal or gastric cancer patients before the scheduled transition period (control measurements)
  • Three audiorecorded treatment information consultations with oesophageal or gastric cancer patients after the scheduled transition period (intervention measurements) and before the scheduled end date of the study
  • Patients:
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  • Age ≥ 18 years
  • Histological or cytological proof of oesophageal or gastric cancer
  • Informed consent for trial data collection A treatment information consultation with a participating doctor to discuss either curative treatment, first line palliative treatment, and/or best supportive care.

Who cannot join

  • Health care providers:
  • Less than two control and/or intervention measurements
  • Patients:
  • Cognitive impairment or insufficient understanding of the Dutch language
  • GIST and smallcell carcinomas.

Trial locations and contacts

12 sites in 1 country.

Loïs F. van de Water, MSc. contact

020-5665955

l.f.vandewater@amsterdamumc.nl

Hanneke WM van Laarhoven, Prof. Dr. contact

020-5665955

hvanlaarhoven@amsterdamumc.nl

12 sites in 1 country

Netherlands12 sites, 12 recruiting
  • Flevoziekenhuis

    Almere Stad

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Recruiting
  • Academic Medical Center

    Amsterdam, North Holland, 1105AZ

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc., +31205665955, l.f.vandewater@amsterdamumc.nl

    Hanneke WM van Laarhoven, MD, PhD

    Recruiting
  • VUmc

    Amsterdam

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Recruiting
  • Radiotherapiegroep

    Arnhem

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • Rijnstate

    Arnhem

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • Catherina Ziekenhuis

    Eindhoven

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • LUMC

    Leiden

    Loïs F. van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • Maastro

    Maastricht

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • Radboud UMC

    Nijmegen

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • BVI

    Tilburg

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • ETZ

    Tilburg

    Loïs F van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting
  • UMC Utrecht

    Utrecht

    Loïs F. van de Water, MSc.

    Not yet recruiting

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About this study

Official title: Stimulating Evidence Based, Personalized and Tailored Information Provision to Improve Decision Making After Oesophagogastric CancEr Diagnosis - a Pragmatic Stepped Wedge Trial-

The overarching aim of the programme 'Stimulating evidence based, personalized and tailored information provision to improve decision making after oesophagogastric cancer diagnosis' (SOURCE) is to provide oesophagogastric cancer patients at all disease stages with evidence based and personalized information about survival, treatment-related side-effects and/or complications and health related quality of life, tailored to patients' specific information needs, to facilitate informed decision making about treatment and thereby optimize personal care and outcomes.

For this purpose the Source tool and training were designed. The Source tool is a prediction model based website to be used by care givers for informing patients about the outcomes of treatment. The Source training for care givers is designed to learn care givers how to inform patients effectively, especially about the outcomes of treatment.

Read the detailed description

The overarching aim of the programme 'Stimulating evidence based, personalized and tailored information provision to improve decision making after oesophagogastric cancer diagnosis' (SOURCE) is to provide oesophagogastric cancer patients at all disease stages with evidence based and personalized information about survival, treatment-related side-effects and/or complications and health related quality of life, tailored to patients' specific information needs, to facilitate informed decision making about treatment and thereby optimize personal care and outcomes.

For this purpose the Source tool and training were designed. The Source tool is a prediction model based website to be used by care givers for informing patients about the outcomes of treatment. The Source training for care givers is designed to learn care givers how to inform patients effectively, especially about the outcomes of treatment.

The primary aim of the SOURCE trial is to investigate the effect of the tool and training on the (numerical) precision of information about outcomes of treatment in the treatment information consultation. Secondary outcomes include: patients' satisfaction, evaluation and knowledge of the information provided by the health care provider, evaluation of the decision made and health related quality of life.

A pragmatic stepped wedge design will be used to test the effect of intervention. 21 health care providers will include 3 patients as control measurements (before intervention) and 3 patients as intervention measurements (after intervention). Participating centers will be divided into geographical subgroups, in which the transition period (in which the intervention will take place) will be spread across time.

All oesophageal and gastric cancer patients scheduled for a treatment information consultation with a participating health care provider are suitable for inclusion and will be approached for participation in the SOURCE study. Measurements include audio recordings of the treatment information consultation and questionnaires filled in by patients and health care providers at different moments in time. Audio recordings will be scored and analyzed based on a study specific coding scheme.

The investigators estimate the physical burden/risk of this study to be negligible.

Being tested
Tool and training
Keywords
Prediction models, Tailored information, Stepped Wedge Trial, Oesophageal cancer, Gastric cancer, Webtool, Health care provider training
Medical subject headings
Esophageal Neoplasms, Stomach Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Tool and trainingOther

    The Source tool aims to assist health care providers with giving evidence based information about treatment outcomes by providing visualizations of personalized predictions of treatment outcomes for different treatments of oesophageal and gastric cancer. These predictions result from recently designed and updated prediction models on the survival, toxicity, complications and health related quality of life of oesophageal and gastric cancer patients.

    The training aims to teach participants to inform patients about outcomes of treatment. The training is placed in the context of shared decision making (SDM), following the 4-step model by Stiggelbout et al., 2015.8 The training is provided in small groups (3-6 participants) by an experienced trainer and supported by professional actors. The training aims to address knowledge, attitude and skills.

Study groups in NCT04232735
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
InterventionExperimentalThe Source tool is used by care givers for informing patients about the outcomes of treatment. Prediction models are developed and built in the website in order to generate a personalized prediction of the outcomes: survival, toxicity and/or complications and HRQL. These predictions are visualized in clear and comprehensible graphs with a broad variation of options available for tailoring of the visualizations. In order for care givers to be able to use this tool effectively, we designed the Source training. This communication skills training is comprised of an e-learning, two face-to-face group sessions and an individual booster session. Aside from an instruction video on the navigation within the Source tool, the e-learning consists of theory and tips and tricks on how to inform patients and communicate risks. The face-to-face components of the training are focused on getting the skilled use of the source tool into practice, by receiving personal feedback on the performance.
Receives: Other: Tool and training

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. SOURCE observational scale

    The SOURCE observational scale is developed to primary answer the following question: Does the combination of the tool and the training improve observed (numerical) precision of information about treatment outcomes in clinical consultations? Min. value: 1 Max. value:4 Higher scores mean higher (numerical) precision

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

Secondary outcomes (18)
  1. Continuing professional development (CPD) reaction Questionnaire

    Health care providers' intention to inform patients about treatment outcomes using numbers (effect training only)

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  2. Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ-5 patient and doctor version)

    Patient and physician satisfaction with communication and decision making

    Measured: 2 weeks

  3. Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDMQ-9)

    Patient-reported shared decision making

    Measured: 2 weeks

  4. Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS)

    Patients' evaluation of the decision made

    Measured: 2 weeks

  5. EORTC QLQ - INFO25 + tailor made items on treatment outcome information

    Patients' evaluation and knowledge of the information provided by the health care provider

    Measured: 2 weeks

  6. EORTC QLQ-C30

    Patients' health related quality of life, cancer specific

    Measured: 3 months vs. baseline

  7. EORTC QLQ-OG25

    Patients' health related quality of life, gastro-intestinal cancer specific

    Measured: 3 months vs. baseline

  8. Trust in the Oncologist Scale (TiOS-sf)

    Patients' trust in the health care provider

    Measured: 2 weeks

  9. State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

    Patients' anxiety

    Measured: 2 weeks vs. baseline

  10. ((Mini-)Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale ((Mini-)MAC)

    Patients' helplessness/hopelessness + fighting spirit

    Measured: 2 weeks vs. baseline

  11. Duration of consultation in minutes (min.)

    Consultation time

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  12. Health care providers' personalization of treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale

    Frequency of explicitly personalizing treatment outcome information, based on audio tapes Min. value: 0 Max. value: endless Higher values mean more utterances of personalization

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  13. Health care providers' tailoring of treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale

    Frequency of explicitly tailoring treatment outcome information, based on audio tapes Min. value: 0 Max. value: endless Higher values mean more utterances of tailoring

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  14. Health care providers' use of visualizations of treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale

    Frequency of explicitly showing visualizations treatment outcome information, based on audio tapes Min. value: 0 Max. value: endless Higher values mean more utterances of showing visualizations

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  15. Health care providers' use of time frames when giving treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale

    Presence of time frame when giving treatment outcome information, in utterances coded for the primary outcome Min. value: 0 Max. value: 1 Value 1 means time frame present, value 0 means time frame absent

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  16. Treatment outcome category of health care providers' treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale

    Treatment outcome category of health care providers' treatment outcome information, in utterances coded for the primary outcome Values: Survival, Health-related Quality of Life, Side effects and complications, Progression of tumor Non-ordinal variable

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  17. Person initializing treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale

    Person taking the initaitive for the health care provider's treatment outcome information, in utterances coded for the primary outcome Values: Health care provider, Patient Non-ordinal variable

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  18. Health care providers' (numerical) precision of treatment outcome information measured with SOURCE observational scale simulated patient consultations (effect intervention)

    Health care providers' (numerical) precision of treatment outcome information measured in simulated patient consultations (effect intervention) Min. value: 1 Max. value:4 Higher scores mean higher (numerical) precision

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted18 Jan 2020
  2. Study start13 Oct 2020
  3. Primary completion30 Sep 2023 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Sep 2023 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
Pragmatic Stepped Wedge Design
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
126 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04232735
Sponsor's protocol ID
W19_094#19.124
Acronym
SOURCE
Status last verified
Dec 2022
First submitted
20 Dec 2019
Last updated
16 Dec 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Tool and training in people with Oesophageal Cancer and Gastric Cancer, run by Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) at 12 sites in Netherlands.

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 9 inclusion and 5 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 Dec 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 12 sites in Netherlands. 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?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Loïs F. van de Water, MSc. (020-5665955, l.f.vandewater@amsterdamumc.nl), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

SOURCE observational scale (time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 16 Dec 2022.

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