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CompletedNCT02084290Updated Feb 7, 2019

Evaluating a Shared Decision Making Program for Crohn's Disease

An interventional study of Shared Decision Making Program in Crohn's Disease, sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Completed at 14 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-02-07.

Sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
204
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Specific Aim: Study the impact of the Crohn's Disease Shared Decision Making Program on patients' treatment choice, persistence with chosen therapy, decision quality, cost of care, and outcomes

Hypothesis: The Crohn's Disease Shared Decision Making Program will help patients understand which treatments are right for them and will lead to a higher acceptance of appropriate therapy, improved persistence with chosen therapy, lower costs and improved clinical outcomes. To accomplish this aim, Investigators will perform a randomized controlled trial to:

  1. Determine how the shared decision making program influences patients' choice of therapy
  2. Evaluate how the shared decision making program affects persistence with chosen therapy
  3. Determine how the shared decision making program affects decision quality
  4. Determine how the shared decision making program influences cost of care and clinical outcomes

Expected Outcome and Impact: Investigators expect that this program will influence patients' choice of therapy, persistence with their preferred therapy, and lead to improved clinical outcomes. Investigators believe that this product can be successfully operationalized in the clinic to establish a new paradigm of how providers can communicate personalized treatment options to patients across a broad range of diseases.

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Conditions studied

  • Crohn's Disease

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Keywords

  • Crohn's disease
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Decision Aid
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In context

Crohn Disease

1,880 studies on the registry are indexed under Crohn Disease; 462 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 204 is above the median of 66 across 1,188 interventional studies indexed under Crohn Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 472 studies on the registry; 68 are open to participants now.

Of its 30 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 20 (67%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Clinical diagnosis of Crohn's Disease based on standard clinical, radiographic, endoscopic, and histologic criteria
  • Age 18 or older
  • Fluent, English Speaking
  • A candidate to receive immunomodulators or anti-TNF therapy based on their providers recommendation
  • not currently taking immunomodulators (6-mercapropurine, azathioprine, methotrexate) or anti-TNF agents (infliximab, adalimumab, certolizumab pegol)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participant in a pilot study/focus group for development of Crohn's Shared Decision Making Program
  • Currently taking any medication that is contraindicated to take together with an immunomodulator or anti-TNF agent
  • Known intolerance to either immunomodulators or anti-TNF agents
  • Lack of accessibility to e-mail for follow-up surveys
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
204 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Shared Decision Making Program

    Patients will have access to an educational decision making program and a risk prediction model, this web based program will be sent subjects in the intervention arm upon enrollment, they can access the program as many times as they wish.

    Behavioral: Shared Decision Making Program

  • No intervention
    Control

    Subjects enrolled at sites participating as control arms will access the same web-based surveys as the intervention group, and receive the same contacts from the study coordinator as the subjects enrolled at intervention sites.

Interventions

  • BehavioralShared Decision Making Program

    This study is cluster randomized by study-site, Subjects enrolled at intervention sites will access an educational program and risk prediction tool. Their decisions about treatments will be compared to subjects that did not view the educational program or risk prediction tool.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of patients choosing Combination therapy

    Time frame: Week 1

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time to initiation of therapy

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, week 26, week 52, week 78, week 110

  2. Patient Choice of therapy

    no therapy, immunomodulator monotherapy, anti-TNF monotherapy, Combination therapy

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, week 26, week 52, week 78, week 110

  3. Persistence (adherence) with chosen therapy

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, week 26, week 52, week 78, week 110

  4. Quality of Decision

    i. Decisional conflict (validated scale) ii. Decision consistent with patient values (i.e., patient receiving the treatment that they want) iii. Trust in physician

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, week 26, week 52, week 78, week 110

  5. Cost of Care

    Crohn's disease related costs at 2 years

    Time frame: week 110

  6. Remission

    Proportion of patients in clinical remission

    Time frame: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years

  7. Patients on Steroids

    Proportion of patients taking steroids

    Time frame: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years

  8. Surgeries

    Proportion of patients requiring Crohn's disease related surgery

    Time frame: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years

  9. Crohn's disease related hospitalizations

    Number of hospitalizations

    Time frame: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years

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Study locations

14 sites
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Los Angeles, California 90048, United States
  • Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates
    Atlanta, Georgia 30342, United States
  • University of Chicago
    Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
  • University of Maryland Medical Center
    Baltimore, Maryland 21043, United States
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
  • Minnesota Gastroenterology
    Plymouth, Minnesota 55446, United States
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
    Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, United States
  • Long Island Clinical Research Associates, LLP
    Great Neck, New York 11021, United States
  • Winthrop University Hospital
    Mineola, New York 11501, United States
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
    New York, New York 10029, United States
  • Charlotte Gastroenterology and Hepatology, PLLC
    Charlotte, North Carolina 28207, United States
  • Ohio GI and Liver Institute
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45219, United States
  • Thomas Jefferson University
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Zisman-Ilani Y, Thompson KD, Siegel LS, Mackenzie T, Crate DJ, Korzenik JR, Melmed GY, Kozuch P, Sands BE, Rubin DT, Regueiro MD, Cross R, Wolf DC, Hanson JS, Schwartz RM, Vrabie R, Kreines MD, Scherer T, Dubinsky MC, Siegel CA. Crohn's disease shared decision making intervention leads to more patients choosing combination therapy: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2023 Jan;57(2):205-214. doi: 10.1111/apt.17286. Epub 2022 Nov 14. PubMed 36377259 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 7, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02084290
Lead sponsor
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Collaborators
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), University of Pittsburgh, MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of Maryland, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Chicago, Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates, Long Island Clinical Research Associates, Center for Digestive and Liver Diseases, Charlotte Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Minnesota Gastroenterology, Ohio Gi and Liver Institute, Winthrop University Hospital
Responsible party
Corey Siegel (Section Chief, Section of Gastroenterology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 11, 2014
Start date
Mar 2014
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2017
Completion
Dec 31, 2018
Last update
Feb 7, 2019

Study contacts

Corey A Siegel, MD
principal investigator · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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