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RECRUITING
NCT05456841
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Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) Training

Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Summary

Research indicates that perceived stigma within medical encounters is prevalent and problematic for lung cancer patients' well-being and quality of cancer care. Promoting empathic communication appears to be a potentially effective intervention target to help reduce patients' perceptions of stigma within clinical encounters; however, no formal trainings exist that focus on teaching empathic communication to oncology care providers (OCPs). Building upon favorable findings from a prior R21 (R21CA202793) and the importance of developing interventions to address lung cancer stigma, our goal is to conduct a national trial of empathic communication skills (ECS) training to facilitate improvements in the medical and psychosocial care of patients through de-stigmatizing interactions with OCPs for patients diagnosed with lung cancer.

Official title: Empathic Communication Skills Training to Reduce Lung Cancer Stigma

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - 100 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

1232

Start Date

2023-04-28

Completion Date

2026-08-31

Last Updated

2026-03-17

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) training

The overall training goal of this 2.25 hour module ECS module is to enhance OCP recognition and responsiveness to lung cancer patients' empathic opportunities by communicating understanding, alleviating stigma and distress, and providing support. The ECS training also provides tools to OCPs to buffer/inoculate patients against stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors by others such that lung cancer patients who currently or formerly smoked can be given "small doses" of an opposing viewpoint (termed as "preparing patients for recurring smoking questions") and suggestions of "counterarguments" in order to make them resistant to future stigmatizing attacks by others

OTHER

Standard of Care participant interaction

Standard of Care participant interaction

Locations (12)

Providence St. Joseph Health (Data Collection Only)

Irvine, California, United States

BAPTIST ALLIANCE - MCI (Data Collection Only)

Miami, Florida, United States

Advocate Health Care Network

Libertyville, Illinois, United States

University of Kentucky (Data Collection Only)

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Munson Healthcare (Data Collection Only)

Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Hackensack Meridian Health (Data collection only)

Hackensack, New Jersey, United States

Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Data Collection Only)

Buffalo, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)

New York, New York, United States

Virtua Health (Data Collection Only)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

University of Pennsylvania (Data Collection Only)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Data Collection Only)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare (Data Collection Only)

Chesapeake, Virginia, United States