LCDC 2 Lung Cancer Discrete Choice Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding how ‘lung cancer symptoms’ and ‘service’ factors drive the decision to seek help from a GP in the Scottish public: a discrete choice experiment
IRAS ID
180502
Contact name
David Weller
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Edinburgh
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
, 14/SS/1088
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 4 months, 1 days
Research summary
This study is based on presenting an I-pad based choice questionnaire to patients registered with a GP in order to understand how they decide to consult their GP for lung cancer symptoms. This is a survey using an electronic questionnaire that will take place in GP practice waiting rooms. Consenting patients will complete the questionnaire on a tablet computer (smaller than a conventional laptop, with touch screen 8"x 6") while they are waiting to see their GP. Patients will be asked to respond to a maximum of 12 choice comparisons, each involving two (or three) choices, since three was the most cognitively acceptable for respondents in the developmental stage. These choices involved hypothetical services and symptoms which might lead them to consult their general pactice.
The study will have policy relevance; there is currently a great deal of interest in refining techniques which encourage people to present with symptoms and to design health services which are as accommodating and flexible as possible - all with the aim of promoting early diagnosis. Outputs of this research will inform public awareness and general practice based interventions in Scotland.
After conducting focus groups and cognitive inteviews with GP registered patients recruited from two GP practices in Edinburgh (Lothian) the design has now been finalised. This work was done in order to seek final approval before participants are recruited from GP practices. Those involved in this study will not have a lung cancer diagnosis. The research is funded by Early Diagnosis Advisory Group (Cancer Research UK).REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1
REC reference
15/ES/0131
Date of REC Opinion
7 Sep 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion