Effectiveness of a Multimedia Educational Intervention to Improve Understanding of the Risks and Benefits of Palliative Chemotherapy in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite requirements of informed consent, patients with advanced cancer often receive palliative chemotherapy (PC) without understanding that the likelihood of cure is remote.

Objective

To determine whether a PC educational video and booklet at treatment initiation could improve patients' understanding of its benefits and risks.

Interventions

Regimen-specific PC videos and booklets presenting information about logistics, potential benefits, life expectancy (optional), adverse effects, and alternatives. Videos featured authentic patients sharing diverse experiences. After receiving treatment recommendations, research assistants distributed materials to patients for independent review.

Design, setting, and participants

Multicenter randomized clinical t

SUBMITTER: Enzinger AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7366281 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature