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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN72253427
Date of registration: 19/02/2003
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Public title: Assisting decision making in menorrhagia in primary care: a randomised controlled trial to compare computerised decision analysis with patient information leaflet. MENTIP study: Menorrhagia Treatment Information and Preferences
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Date of first enrolment: 01/02/2003
Target sample size: 300
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN72253427
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Treatment)  
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
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Name: Joanne    Protheroe
Address:  NPCRDC 5th Floor Williamson Building The University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL Manchester United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)161 2757601
Email: j.protheroe@man.ac.uk
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Women aged 30-49 years presenting to GP with heavy periods
Exclusion criteria: 1. Women with confirmed or provisional diagnoses of physical pathology (including cancer, endometriosis, fibroids, prolapse and cysts).
2. Women considered by their GP to be unsuitable due to physical or psychological impairment.
3. Women unable to understand English. Because of the nature of the intervention (i.e. a written computer programme), some proficiency in English is required.


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Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Menorrhagia
Urological and Genital Diseases
Menorrhagia
Intervention(s)
1. Control group: Patient Information Leaflet (PIL)
2. Intervention group: PIL and Clinical Guidance Tree (computerised Decision Analysis)
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary outcome measure will be the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS), a questionnaire developed by O'Connor (1999) for use in studies of decision-making processes. This instrument measures a person's perception of: personal uncertainty in making a choice about health care options, the modifiable factors (such as feeling uninformed, unsupported and unclear about personal values) and the quality of the decision made (in terms of satisfaction with the choice and expectation to maintain).
Secondary Outcome(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary ID(s)
G106/1048
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Medical Research Council (MRC) Special Training Fellowship (UK) (ref: G106/1048), National Primary Care Research And Development Centre (NPCRDC) (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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Results
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