A Randomized Controlled Trial of Using Video Images in Dementia

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Conditions studied: Dementia

In brief

BACKGROUND: Advance care planning (ACP) is the process in which patients plan for future medical care under circumstances of impaired decision-making. Video is an underutilized medium that can assist clinicians in discussions of future health states, such as the state of advanced dementia. Video may enable patients to visualize the future by concisely providing complex information vital for ACP. This study will examine whether the use of video could facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of advanced dementia and inform clinician-patient discussions about the level of care a patient would want in the event of advanced dementia. RESEARCH PLAN: We propose to conduct a randomized trial studying ACP for 200 elderly subjects using a video depiction of a patient with dementia compared to the traditional verbal narrative. Specific aims 1 and 2 assess the effect of a video of advanced dementia on the clinical decision making of elderly subjects compared to the traditional verbal narrative.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00704886
Run by
Massachusetts General Hospital
People needed
200
Starts
2007-09-01
Expected to finish
2008-06-01
Last updated by the study team
2009-06-23

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

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Where it is running

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