Getting ready for prime time: Recommended adaptations of an Empathic Communication Skills training intervention to reduce lung cancer stigma for a national multi-center trial

Smita C. Banerjee; Charlotte D. Malling; Megan J. Shen; Timothy J. Williamson; Carma L. Bylund; Jamie L. Studts; Timothy Mullett; Lisa Carter-Bawa; Heidi A. Hamann; Patricia A. Parker; Matthew Steliga; Jill Feldman; Jim Pantelas; Andrea Borondy-Kitts; Maureen Rigney; Jennifer C. King; Joelle T. Fathi; Lauren S. Rosenthal; Robert A. Smith; Jamie S. Ostroff

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Getting ready for prime time: Recommended adaptations of an Empathic Communication Skills training intervention to reduce lung cancer stigma for a national multi-center trial

Smita C. Banerjee, Charlotte D. Malling, Megan J. Shen, Timothy J. Williamson, Carma L. Bylund, Jamie L. Studts, Timothy Mullett, Lisa Carter-Bawa, Heidi A. Hamann, Patricia A. Parker, Matthew Steliga, Jill Feldman, Jim Pantelas, Andrea Borondy-Kitts, Maureen Rigney, Jennifer C. King, Joelle T. Fathi, Lauren S. Rosenthal, Robert A. Smith, Jamie S. Ostroff

Center for Discovery and Innovation

Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

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Building upon prior work developing and pilot testing a provider-focused Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) training intervention, this study sought feedback from key invested partners who work with individuals with lung cancer (i.e. stakeholders including scientific and clinical advisors and patient advocates) on the ECS training intervention. The findings will be used to launch a national virtually-delivered multi-center clinical trial that will examine the effectiveness and implementation of the evidence-based ECS training intervention to reduce patients' experience of lung cancer stigma. A 1-day, hybrid, key invested partners meeting was held in New York City in Fall 2021. We presented the ECS training intervention to all conference attendees (N = 25) to seek constructive feedback on modifications of the training content and platform for intervention delivery to maximize its impact. After participating in the immersive training, all participants engaged in a group discussion guided by semi-structured probes. A deductive thematic content analysis was conducted to code focus group responses into 12 distinct a priori content modification recommendations. Content refinement was suggested in 8 of the 12 content modification themes: tailoring/tweaking/refining, adding elements, removing elements, shortening/condensing content, lengthening/extending content, substituting elements, re-ordering elements, and repeating elements. Engagement and feedback from key invested multi-sector partner is a valuable resource for intervention content modifications. Using a structured format for refining evidence-based interventions can facilitate efforts to understand the nature of modifications required for scaling up interventions and the impact of these modifications on outcomes of interest. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05456841.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	804-808
Number of pages	5
Journal	Translational behavioral medicine
Volume	13
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibad048
State	Published - Oct 1 2023

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Applied Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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content modification
empathic communication
invested partners
lung cancer stigma
oncology care providers

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Banerjee, S. C., Malling, C. D., Shen, M. J., Williamson, T. J., Bylund, C. L., Studts, J. L., Mullett, T., Carter-Bawa, L., Hamann, H. A., Parker, P. A., Steliga, M., Feldman, J., Pantelas, J., Borondy-Kitts, A., Rigney, M., King, J. C., Fathi, J. T., Rosenthal, L. S., Smith, R. A., & Ostroff, J. S. (2023). Getting ready for prime time: Recommended adaptations of an Empathic Communication Skills training intervention to reduce lung cancer stigma for a national multi-center trial. Translational behavioral medicine, 13(10), 804-808. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibad048

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Getting ready for prime time: Recommended adaptations of an Empathic Communication Skills training intervention to reduce lung cancer stigma for a national multi-center trial. / Banerjee, Smita C.; Malling, Charlotte D.; Shen, Megan J. et al.
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