Physician-Patient Communication About Breast Cancer-Related Internet Information and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Anxiety

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to learn about how patients who have looked up cancer-related information on the internet talk with their doctors. We are interested in these conversations even if the patients do not think they will talk about the information with their doctor during their visit. We will audio record doctor-patient visits and listen to these recordings to learn about how patients who have looked up cancer-related internet information talk to their doctors and how their doctors talk to them. We will also give patients questionnaires before and after their appointments to learn about what they think about communicating with their doctors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00712569

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

85

Starts

2008-06-01

Expected to finish

2015-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-02-06

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subject Inclusion Criteria for Patients
• Female
• Diagnosis of breast cancer
• Pre-surgery (*for breast surgeon patients only)
• Report that they have read breast cancer-related internet information since their diagnosis with breast cancer.
• Provide informed consent
• Subject Inclusion Criteria Physicians
• Breast surgeon or breast medical oncologist
• Agree to participate in study and one of 10 selected participants
• Provide inform consent

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion Criteria for Patients
• Less than 21 years of age
• Cognitive or physical impairment rendering patients incapable of providing informed consent to participate in the study
• As the measures and coding system are all written in English, subjects who are not fluent in English will be excluded.
• Exclusion Criteria for Physicians
• None

Where it is running

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Commack — Commack, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
• Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center@Phelps — Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States

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