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A New Tool to Promote Patient's Engagement in Their Healthcare Process
Sponsor: European Institute of Oncology
Summary
Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer need to make a decision about the therapeutic treatment to undertake. Since multiple factors can influence this decision, it is necessary to develop a decision-making support tool to assist them in making this choice. Main Objective: To develop a decision-making support tool for determining the treatment to undertake for women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and test its effectiveness on an experimental group.
Official title: Development and Testing of a Patient's Decision Aid for Early Breast Cancer: a New Tool to Promote Patient's Engagement in Their Healthcare Process
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
180
Start Date
2025-01-22
Completion Date
2027-01
Last Updated
2025-11-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Healthcare professionals
healthcare professionals (HCPs) targeted, including team members: we will involve 30 physicians (who are involved in the process of care towards patients with early breast cancer (10 oncologists, 10 breast surgeon, and 10 breast radiologists specifically) for the semi-structured interviews
Patients PDA group
Participants will receive via mail the final version of the PDA and a Qualtrics link with a battery of questionnaires
Patients control group
Participants will receive only the online link with the battery of questionnaires
Locations (1)
European Institute of Oncology
Milan, Italy, Italy