| Protocol ID | NCT06598020 |
| Registration Date | 2024-09-19 |
| Status | active, not recruiting |
| Sponsor | Carmel Medical Center |
| Country | Israel |
| Industry | not industry |
| Blinding | unblinded |
| Center Type | singel-center RCT |
| Scope | national RCT |
| First Patient In | 2023-10-01 |
| Last Patient Out | 2026-03-30 |
| Publication | n |
| Gender % | ALL |
| Mean Age | – |
NCT06598020
Evaluating the Impact of an Integrative Oncology Training Program for Physicians, Nurses, and Medical Educators on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Implementation of Learned Clinical Skills
| Field |
CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514 Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514 5254ms / 10097 tok |
GLM
glm-5.1 6373ms / 8862 tok |
OPENAI
gpt-4o Thinking: o3 3683ms / 8690 tok |
Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rct_type | parallel RCT | parallel RCT | parallel RCT | OK |
| cancer_status | Cancer | Cancer | Cancer | OK |
| non_cancer_spec | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |
| setting_patient |
outpatient
mixed → outpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: mixed
Requery: outpatient — This is a medical education study training healthcare providers in integrative oncology skills, with participants attending structured training programs and clinic observations rather than being admitted patients themselves.
Thinking: outpatient — The study participants are healthcare providers attending a training program, not admitted patients - they come for training sessions and return home.
|
outpatient
outpatient
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: outpatient
|
outpatient
outpatient → inpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: outpatient
Requery: inpatient — Participants in both study groups are exposed to clinical IO therapeutic interactions with patients admitted to the oncology center, indicating an inpatient setting.
Thinking: outpatient — The intervention is a training course for healthcare providers delivered through online and on-site sessions without admitting the participants to inpatient care.
|
OK |
| setting_place |
other
other → other
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: other
Requery: other — This is a medical education training program for healthcare providers delivered through online courses and practical training sessions at an oncology center, which constitutes an educational/training setting rather than direct patient care delivery.
|
other
hospital
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: hospital
|
other
other → other
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: other
Requery: other — The intervention involves mentorship and practical training in outpatient integrative oncology clinics at the oncology center, not requiring hospitalization or specific admission.
|
OK |
| feasibility | fully powered RCT | fully powered RCT | fully powered RCT | OK |
| intervention_pharmacologic | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_chemo_immuno_radio | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_complementary |
yes
yes → yes
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: yes — The intervention includes training healthcare providers in complementary modalities such as acupressure, acupuncture, reflexology, and mind-body techniques like breathing, relaxation, and guided imagery.
|
yes
no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
|
yes
yes → yes
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: yes — The training program includes complementary modalities such as acupressure, acupuncture, and reflexology.
|
OK |
| intervention_device | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_psychological |
no
yes → yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: yes — The Enhanced IO Training includes structured anxiety relief using mind-body modalities such as breathing, relaxation, and guided imagery, which are established psychological techniques.
Thinking: no — This is a medical education program training healthcare providers in integrative oncology techniques, not providing structured psychological therapy to patients.
|
no
no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: no — The trial evaluates a medical education and competency-based training program for healthcare providers, not a structured psychological therapy delivered to patients.
|
no
yes → no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — The trial focuses on medical education and integrative oncology training for healthcare providers, including anxiety relief using mind-body modalities, but does not specify any structured psychological therapy.
Thinking: no — Intervention is provider education on integrative oncology skills, not a structured psychological therapy delivered to patients.
|
OK |
| intervention_complex |
no
yes → no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — This is a single educational intervention comparing two different training approaches (competency-based vs. observational) for integrative oncology, without combining fundamentally different intervention categories.
Thinking: no — This is a single educational/training intervention for healthcare providers, despite having multiple modules and delivery methods (online + practical).
|
no
no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
|
no
no → yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: yes — The intervention combines educational and behavioral components including competency-based training and practical application of mind-body and touch modalities, meeting criteria for a multi-component educational and behavioral intervention.
Thinking: no — The intervention is a single-type educational/behavioral training program without additional distinct categories such as pharmacologic or organizational components.
|
OK |
| intervention_acp | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_music | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_screening | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_palliative |
no
yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — This is an educational intervention testing different training approaches for integrative oncology, not a palliative care consultation or service delivery intervention.
|
no
no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
|
no
no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: no — The intervention is focused on training healthcare providers in integrative oncology, not on palliative care consultation or service delivery.
|
OK |
| intervention_education | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_digital | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_other | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_symptom | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_qol | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_dignity | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_cost | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_other | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| pharmacologic_sub | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |