Addressing Health Literacy With a Tailored Survivorship Care Plan

Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Compare outcomes after patients receive usual care from their providers with a standard SCP and after patients receive tailoring of the SCP with the low literacy educational supplement.

II. To quantify the potential benefit of tailoring the care plan and the educational supplement.

III. Compare providers’ assessment of patients’:

IIIa. Health literacy; IIIb. Comprehension of survivorship care recommendations; IIIc. Understanding of long term and late effects from treatment; IIId. To measures obtained from patients.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 groups.

GROUP I (INTERVENTION): Patients receive standard SCP during a provider visit and a tailored SCP with a low literacy educational supplement during a structured interview over 30-60 minutes.

GROUP II (CONTROL): Patients receive standard SCP using the prostate cancer ASCO template during a provider visit and undergo a structured interview over 30-60 minutes.