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DISCO: A Patient Intervention to Reduce the Financial Burden of Cancer
Sponsor: Lauren Hamel
Summary
The DISCO App is designed to improve, during the interaction, patient active participation and patient-initiated oncologist treatment cost discussions, and, in the short term, patient's treatment cost knowledge, self-efficacy for managing both cost and physician interactions, referrals, perceived financial toxicity (i.e., distress and material hardship); in turn, these will affect longer-term outcomes of financial toxicity and adherence.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
260
Start Date
2021-02-10
Completion Date
2028-08-31
Last Updated
2025-05-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Group 2: The DISCO App
Patients will receive an individually-tailorable cancer treatment cost education and communication intervention delivered on an iPad just prior to meeting with their oncologist.
Group 1: Usual Care
Patients randomized to this arm will receive usual care.
Group 3: The DISCO App + Booster
Patients will receive an individually-tailorable cancer treatment cost education and communication intervention delivered on an iPad just prior to meeting with their oncologist. Then, 2 months later they will receive an intervention booster in the form of an individually-tailored email to remind patients of the contents of the intervention.
Locations (1)
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, Michigan, United States