Randomized Trial of a Web-Based Intervention to Address Barriers to Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Lack of knowledge and negative attitudes have been identified as barriers to participation in clinical trials by patients with cancer. We developed Preparatory Education About Clinical Trials (PRE-ACT), a theory-guided, Web-based, interactive computer program, to deliver tailored video educational content to patients in an effort to overcome barriers to considering clinical trials as a treatment option.

Patients and methods

A prospective, randomized clinical trial compared PRE-ACT with a control condition that provided general clinical trials information produced by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in text format. One thousand two hundred fifty-five patients with cancer were randomly allocated before their initial visit with an oncologist to PRE-ACT (n = 623) or c

SUBMITTER: Meropol NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4872012 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature