Novel INPUT Screening Tool to Improve Illness Understanding in Patients With Metastatic or Incurable Lung Cancer

Description

This clinical trial compares the use of a new screening tool designed to evaluate patients' information needs, preferences, and illness understanding to the usual care to improve illness understanding in patients with lung cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic) or for which no curative treatment is currently available (incurable). Goal concordant care is a model of care that aligns a patient's medical care with their values, preferences, and goals. Often, patients may not fully understand their illness and prognosis, but this information is important so that they can make fully informed decisions regarding their care that are consistent with their values, preferences, and goals. Completing the Information Needs, Preferences, and Understanding Trial (INPUT) screening tool may allow for more frequent and regular discussions regarding disease status and treatment goals, ultimately resulting in improved patient illness understanding and goal concordant care for patients with metastatic or incurable lung cancer.

Conditions

Lung Carcinoma, Metastatic Lung Carcinoma, Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v8

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This clinical trial compares the use of a new screening tool designed to evaluate patients' information needs, preferences, and illness understanding to the usual care to improve illness understanding in patients with lung cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic) or for which no curative treatment is currently available (incurable). Goal concordant care is a model of care that aligns a patient's medical care with their values, preferences, and goals. Often, patients may not fully understand their illness and prognosis, but this information is important so that they can make fully informed decisions regarding their care that are consistent with their values, preferences, and goals. Completing the Information Needs, Preferences, and Understanding Trial (INPUT) screening tool may allow for more frequent and regular discussions regarding disease status and treatment goals, ultimately resulting in improved patient illness understanding and goal concordant care for patients with metastatic or incurable lung cancer.

Information Needs, Preferences, and Understanding Trial (INPUT): A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Effects of a Screening Tool on Illness Understanding

Novel INPUT Screening Tool to Improve Illness Understanding in Patients With Metastatic or Incurable Lung Cancer

Condition
Lung Carcinoma
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Houston

MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Within 3 months of biopsy-confirmed diagnosis of metastatic or incurable lung cancer
  • * Age 18 or over
  • * English speaking
  • * Attending a follow-up visit at the thoracic medical oncology clinic
  • * Plans to receive or actively undergoing cancer-directed treatment at MD Anderson

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,

Kayley Ancy, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2027-12-31