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Status unknownNCT04999865Updated Aug 19, 2021

Cystic Fibrosis Reproductive and Sexual Health Collaborative: Building Online Research Partnerships

An observational study in Cystic Fibrosis and Patient Engagement, sponsored by University of Washington. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-08-19.

Sponsored by University of Washington · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Aug 2021), so the status shown — last known as Active, not recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Ecologic or community
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
100
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Study summary

This is a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute engagement effort aimed at training researchers/providers and patients to work in research teams together online throughout the research process (including: development, design, and dissemination) to address critical gaps in their care. This is a change from the typical research done with people with CF as they are frequently isolated from other members of the CF community because of infection control guidelines that restrict in-person contact to avoid the spread of bacteria between patients.

This project has four aims:

  1. build capacity for PCOR knowledge and skills applicable for longitudinal online engagement,
  2. create and disseminate a best practices PCOR user guide for populations that solely engage online,
  3. to create an interactive web-based version of our User Guide through a survey and three modified Delphi rounds, and
  4. to create a comprehensive training manual for conducting PCOR online (step-by-step instructions), which will incorporate the aforementioned user guide.
Read the detailed description

The CF Reproductive and Sexual Health Collaborative (CFReSHC) will introduce and support patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) to the greater CF community using existing PCOR training products and adapt them so that they address key issues related to researcher-patient teams that solely engage online. We will create a best-practices user guide for online engagement by performing key-informant interviews with patient- or community-engaged teams and periodic assessments of day-to-day platform use with CFReSHC members and other PCOR teams.

This project has four aims:

  1. build capacity for PCOR knowledge and skills applicable for longitudinal online engagement,
  2. create and disseminate a best practices PCOR user guide for populations that solely engage online,
  3. to create an interactive web-based version of our User Guide through a survey and three modified Delphi rounds, and
  4. to create a comprehensive training manual for conducting PCOR online (step-by-step instructions), which will incorporate the aforementioned user guide.
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Conditions studied

  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Patient Engagement

Keywords

  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Education
  • Patient engaged research
  • Training
  • Evaluation
  • Patient
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In context

Cystic Fibrosis

1,581 studies on the registry are indexed under Cystic Fibrosis; 190 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 85 across 482 observational studies indexed under Cystic Fibrosis.

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Lead sponsor

University of Washington is the lead sponsor of 1,397 studies on the registry; 225 are open to participants now.

Of its 154 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 132 (86%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Eligible participants are members of the CF community (patients, caregivers, researchers, providers or other stakeholders) who have an interest in learning more about patient-engaged methodology.

Inclusion criteria

  • Any interested adult CF patients, CF caregivers, researchers or healthcare providers can be included in the online patient-engagement training program. Any interested patients/community members and researchers/providers involved in patient-centered outcomes reserach teams that engage online can be included for the online platform interviews.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Persons less than 18 years of age
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Study design

Observational model
Ecologic or community
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • Other4-part educational program to build patient-engagement methodology capacity

    We created four online training sessions. Our first training for patients/caregivers only (Research 101) was an exception, however, in which we produced a 25-minute asynchronous, self-directed learning seminar intended to be viewed before the subsequent interactive PCOR sessions. Of the three following synchronous interactive training sessions, two included both learner working groups (patients/caregivers and researchers/providers) together (PCOR 101 and PCOR Team Dynamics) and one session (PCOR Study Design) was for researchers/healthcare providers only.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in knowledge, confidence and satisfaction regarding patient-engagement methodology

    we evaluated each of our training sessions by administering a survey to participants before the training and another similar survey immediately after the training. For both the pre- and post-training surveys, we asked participants to rate their agreement about PCOR knowledge, confidence about engaging in PCOR and training session satisfaction (post-training only) using a 5 option Likert scale. Participants were given a statement related to the learning objective and asked to rate how much they agreed with the statement with options ranging from strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree and strongly agree. At the end of each survey, we asked open-ended questions regarding what the participants liked about the training session and how we could improve. Surveys were administered online via REDCap.

    Time frame: four separate training programs over the course of a year

  2. Development of step-by-step training manual

    3)4) 12-15 CF and PCOR community stakeholders, selected through an application process, will attend monthly virtual meetings to provide feedback on the development of the PCOR training manual.

    Time frame: March 2021-December 2021

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Study locations

1 site
  • University of Washington
    Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Godfrey EM, Thayer EK, Mentch L, Kazmerski TM, Brown G, Pam M, Al Achkar M. Development and evaluation of a virtual patient-centered outcomes research training program for the cystic fibrosis community. Res Involv Engagem. 2021 Dec 4;7(1):86. doi: 10.1186/s40900-021-00328-4. PubMed 34863273 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — individual participant data will not be shared

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 19, 2021, 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
NCT04999865
Lead sponsor
University of Washington
Collaborators
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Responsible party
Emily Godfrey (Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Washington) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 11, 2021
Start date
Apr 19, 2019
Primary completion
Aug 15, 2020
Completion
Dec 31, 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 19, 2021

Study contacts

Emily M Godfrey, MD, MPH
principal investigator · University of Washington

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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