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The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a pre-consultation decision support workshop for breast reconstruction after breast cancer, in facilitating the decision-making process, compared to routine pre-surgical education.
Postmastectomy breast reconstruction is becoming increasingly utilized in breast cancer patients to provide surgical restoration of the breast mounds. The breast reconstruction discussions can be highly complex, as there are many different techniques, timing, and complications that are unique to each procedure. However ¼ of women report being dissatisfied with some component of their cancer or reconstructive care. Failure of the physician to provide adequate information about treatment options is the most frequent source of cancer patient dissatisfaction and breast reconstruction patients have expressed a need for further information regarding the complex decision to pursue breast reconstruction. In such scenarios of complex medical decision-making, decision support techniques may be an effective solution to information provision and shared decision-making. As a result, the investigators developed a pre-consultation educational group intervention delivered in a group setting for women considering breast reconstruction, with the aims to fill an existing information-gap, promote high-quality decision-making and enhance decision self-efficacy and other decision measures. This study will evaluate the educational group intervention.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Educational group intervention | Experimental | The pre-consultation educational group intervention will be 2 hours in duration on the morning of the consultation and will be facilitated by a dedicated social worker from psycho-oncology. |
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| Standard Care | No Intervention | Routine pre-consultation education |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| pre-consultation educational group intervention | Behavioral | Incorporates the key components of shared decision-making and decision support with the philosophy of delivering supportive care to cancer patients.
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Decisional Conflict Scale | Decision conflict scale measures personal perceptions of uncertainty in choosing options and has been demonstrated to be valid and responsive to change. The decisional conflict scale is a 16-item 5-response instrument that reports a score from 0 - 100 with higher scores indicating more conflict (items are summed, divided by 16 and multiplied by 25). | Change from baseline decision conflict at 1 week after surgical consultation |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Toni Zhong, MD, MHS | University Health Network, Toronto | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Toronto General Hospital | Toronto | Ontario | M5G 2C4 | Canada |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 25351455 | Result | Causarano N, Platt J, Baxter NN, Bagher S, Jones JM, Metcalfe KA, Hofer SO, O'Neill AC, Cheng T, Starenkyj E, Zhong T. Pre-consultation educational group intervention to improve shared decision-making for postmastectomy breast reconstruction: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Support Care Cancer. 2015 May;23(5):1365-75. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2479-6. Epub 2014 Oct 29. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D001943 | Breast Neoplasms |
| ID | Term |
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| D009371 | Neoplasms by Site |
| D009369 | Neoplasms |
| D001941 | Breast Diseases |
| D012871 | Skin Diseases |
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| D017437 |
| Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases |