Writing Down Goals | NCT04932993

Studies
Writing Down Goals

NCT04932993

Sponsor

University of Texas at Austin

Status

Withdrawn

Last Update Posted

Jul 31, 2025Actual

Enrollment

0Actual

Phase

Not Applicable

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Interventions

Writing down goals

Countries

Not provided

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Annotation Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Document Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Jul 2025

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Withdrawn

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Deemed not feasible.

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Sep 1, 2025Estimated

Primary Completion Date

Oct 1, 2025Estimated

Completion Date

Nov 1, 2025Estimated

First Submitted Date

Jun 8, 2021

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Jun 17, 2021

First Posted Date

Jun 21, 2021Actual

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

Not provided

Results First Posted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Posted Date

Not provided

Last Update Submitted Date

Jul 28, 2025

Last Update Posted Date

Jul 31, 2025Actual

Sponsor/Collaborators Module

Responsible Party, by Official Title

David Ring, David Ring, MD, PhD Associate Dean for Comprehensive Care, Professor of Surgery and Psychiatry, University of Texas at AustinPrincipal Investigator

Lead Sponsor

University of Texas at AustinOTHER

Collaborators

Not provided

Oversight Module

Has Data Monitoring Committee (DMC)

Is FDA Regulated Drug

Is FDA Regulated Device

Is Unapproved Device

Not provided

Pediatric Postmarket Surveillance of a Device Product

Not provided

Product Exported from US

Not provided

FDAAA801 Violation

Not provided

Description Module

Brief Summary

The women's health IPU at UT Health Austin is happy with having patients write down their goals at their first visit and then tracking those. It would be interesting to study people seeking musculoskeletal specialty care to determine whether asking patients what result of their care would be rated a success helps direct the clinician-patient interaction in a more fruitful direction compared to the usual clinical interaction.

Detailed Description

People's stated preferences are often inconsistent with what matters most to them (their values). And they are often based on misconceptions, distress, and less effective cognitive coping strategies. For instance, a person might say "My goal is to have no pain" when that is not possible. Or they might say "My goal is to get the shot that fixes this" when there is no such shot. It may go without saying that people want: "To be able to live a normal lifestyle" and "To be able to accomplish most of their goals." In other words, people want to be able to be themselves. They are seeking care because they are not able to be themselves or they are concerned that they may not be able to be themselves. The word health comes from an old German word meaning "whole."

One part of good health is correcting or alleviating pathophysiology (e.g. reading glasses). Another part of good health is evolving one's inner narrative (e.g. "I'm older now and need glasses to read").

Design Module

Study Type

Interventional

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Not provided

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Not Applicable

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

0Actual

Arms/Interventions Module

Arm Groups

Label	Type	Description	Intervention Names
Standard care	No Intervention	Will not write down goals their goals for their medical care (usual care).
Writing down goals	Experimental	Will write down goals their goals for their medical care.	Behavioral: Writing down goals

Interventions

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Writing down goals	Behavioral	Patient will write their health goals down before the visit.	Writing down goals

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Decision conflict questionnaire	Questionnaire assessing decision conflict	Baseline

Secondary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Decision regret questionnaire	Questionnaire assessing the degree of regret of decision	Baseline
Jefferson Scale of Patient's Perceptions of Physician Empathy	Patient perceived of physician empathy as measured by the JSPPE

Other Outcomes

Not provided

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Adult patients (18+)
Orthopedic visit

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients who are illiterate.
Patients who do not speak English.

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

18 Years

Maximum Age

89 Years

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
David Ring, MD, PhD	Professor of Surgery, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin	Principal Investigator

Locations

Not provided

IPD Sharing Statement Module

Plan to Share IPD

Description

Not provided

Types

Not provided

Time Frame

Not provided

Access Criteria

Not provided

URL

Not provided

Condition Browse Module

MeSH Terms

ID	Term
D009140	Musculoskeletal Diseases

Ancestor Terms

Not provided

Browse Leaves

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Browse Branches

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Intervention Model Description

All new, adult (18+ years old) patients seeing an orthopedic surgeon for a consultation will be invited to participate in this study. Patients randomly will be assigned to: write down goals their goals for their medical care (intervention) or not (usual visit control group). The research assistant will ask the patient to fill out a survey entailing demographics, JSPPE, the communication effectiveness score, the PAM score and a satisfaction scale at the end of the visit. A research assistant will record the diagnosis,