Evaluation of a patient decision aid for ulcerative colitis v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluation of a patient decision aid for ulcerative colitis: a pilot mixed methods study
IRAS ID
344050
Contact name
Nyantara Wickramasekera
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Sheffield
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 30 days
Research summary
Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a lifelong Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) where people develop ulcers in the lining of the colon (also known as the large bowel). Around 380,000 people are living with ulcerative colitis in the UK. UC has many painful symptoms and has a big impact on quality of life. People with this disease may have long periods of remission but many will have relapses where their symptoms get worse. With no cure, medical and surgical treatments are used to help patients have a better quality of life. These treatments have different benefits and risks that patients need to balance to choose the treatment they prefer. However, with several types of medication and different types of surgery, choosing the best treatment can be difficult. Along with doctors’ advice, decision aids are used by patients to help them select the best treatment for them.
The online decision aid for this study contains information that will help patients to prepare to make an informed treatment decision. Our decision aid also contains a discrete choice experiment (DCE) as a way to clarify patient values for treatments.
This study aims to conduct a mixed methods pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of the decision tool for patients with ulcerative colitis to make informed treatment decisions.The outputs of this pilot study can be used to design a RCT for patients with UC in the future to assess the effectiveness of the decision aid to improve shared decision making.
This project is funded by the NIHR Doctoral Fellowship programme. To achieve the aims and objectives of this project The University of Sheffield are working in partnership with clinicians at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (STH).
REC name
London - Stanmore Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/PR/0951
Date of REC Opinion
30 Sep 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion