Space and Interaction Trial: Room Design and Patient-physician Interaction (SIT)

December 13, 2011 updated by: Mayo Clinic

SIT Trial: The Effect of Clinical Room Design on the Quality of the Clinical Encounter

The purpose of this study is to improve the clinical encounter through the design of the clinical environment. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to measure the extent to which a newly designed clinical room, compared to a traditional room, affects the patient-physician interaction. We will judge this outcome by (a) videotaping encounters; and (b) conducting post-visit surveys with patients and an interview with physicians. We will use both qualitative and quantitative tools, including a validated and widely used interaction coding system on the videotapes, to draw inferences from these data.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Minnesota
      • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
        • Mayo Clinic

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Eligible Clinicians:

  1. In the Department of GIM or Preventive Medicine
  2. Able and Willing to participate in research study.

Eligible patients:

  1. Patient of a clinician participating in the study
  2. 18 years or older
  3. Seeing clinician for return/summary visit.

Exclusion Criteria:

1.) Not able to give informed consent.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Usual room
Patients in this arm will see their clinician in the usual clinical exam room
Other: Control room
This is the usual clinical room for a clinical visit, with physician at desk and chairs along the wall for patient/family.
Experimental: Re-designed room
Patients assigned to this arm will see the physician in a redesigned clinical exam room
Other: Re-designed room
In the redesigned room patients and clinicians are sitting at a single table in a different configuration compared to the usual clinical exam room, with the doctor at the computer and two chairs for the patient and family/friends.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Patient and Clinician Interaction variables (duration of the encounter, patient sense of control in encounter, patient's ability to access information from the computer monitor and the quality of the verbal and non-verbal interaction).
Time Frame: Immediately post clinical visit (survey)
Immediately post clinical visit (survey)
Patient experience of the clinical encounter. The following variables will be measured: patient satisfaction with the room, patient satisfaction with the encounter and the quality of the relationship.
Time Frame: Immediately post visit
Immediately post visit

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Collaborators

Steelcase

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Victor M. Montori, M.D., MSc, Mayo Clinic

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

July 1, 2007

Primary Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2008

Study Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2008

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 10, 2008

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 10, 2008

First Posted (Estimate)

December 11, 2008

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 14, 2011

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 13, 2011

Last Verified

December 1, 2011

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 07-000135

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