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Sponsors and Collaborators: |
Massachusetts General Hospital Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making |
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Information provided by: | Massachusetts General Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00704886 |
BACKGROUND: Advance care planning (ACP) is the process in which patients plan for future medical care under circumstances of impaired decision-making. Video is an underutilized medium that can assist clinicians in discussions of future health states, such as the state of advanced dementia. Video may enable patients to visualize the future by concisely providing complex information vital for ACP. This study will examine whether the use of video could facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of advanced dementia and inform clinician-patient discussions about the level of care a patient would want in the event of advanced dementia.
RESEARCH PLAN: We propose to conduct a randomized trial studying ACP for 400 elderly subjects using a video depiction of a patient with dementia compared to the traditional verbal narrative. Specific aims 1 and 2 assess the effect of a video of advanced dementia on the clinical decision making of elderly subjects compared to the traditional verbal narrative. And, specific aim 3 compares the decisional conflict between the video arm and verbal narrative arm.
Condition | Intervention |
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Dementia |
Other: video |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Supportive Care, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Single Group Assignment |
Official Title: | A Randomized Controlled Trial of Using Video Images in Dementia |
Enrollment: | 200 |
Study Start Date: | September 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | June 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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1: No Intervention
verbal
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2: Experimental
video
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Other: video
video of dementia
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Outcome measures were what subjects wanted if they had advanced dementia.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 65 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
United States, Massachusetts | |
MGH | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114 |
Principal Investigator: | Angelo Volandes, MD | MGH |
Responsible Party: | Massachusetts General Hospital ( Angelo Volandes, MD PI ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 2007p001264 |
Study First Received: | June 23, 2008 |
Last Updated: | June 24, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00704886 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
dementia |
Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders Mental Disorders Central Nervous System Diseases Brain Diseases |
Dementia Cognition Disorders Delirium |
Nervous System Diseases |