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Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) Training
Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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
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
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