skin conductance level  (PLUX Biosignals SA)

Journal: Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Article Title: The Effect of Prognostic Communication on Patient Outcomes in Palliative Cancer Care: a Systematic Review

doi: 10.1007/s11864-020-00742-y

Figure Lengend Snippet: Characteristics and results of the included studies

Article Snippet: M.S.C. Sep et al. (2014, The Netherlands) , To examine (1) whether clinicians can lower patients’ physiological arousal and (2) whether they can improve recall of provided information in a bad news consultation by means of affective communication , Experiment (between-subjects design, RCT) , 50 healthy women without previous cancer history , Experimental setting , Prognostic disclosure and disclosure strategy: affective vs. standard communication , Incurability, life expectancy and treatment options , Providing reassurance or not during a simulated bad news consultation (video-recorded vignettes 5 ) , Skin conductance level (microsiemens from the BIOPAC MP150); recall (self-constructed survey questions); non-abandonment, reassurance of support and doctor empathy (adapted QUOTE-COM) , Skin conductance level increased ( p = .004) in the affective and standard condition in bivariate analyses, during disclosure of incurability before the manipulation started After the manipulation, during communication about life expectancy and treatment options, there was better recall of information ( p = .035), more perceived doctor non-abandonment ( p = .002) and reassurance ( p = .02), as well as a trend for doctor empathy ( p = .08), in the affective vs. standard condition in bivariate analyses Stronger decrease of skin conductance level ( p < .0001) in the affective vs. standard condition, as well as an association between skin conductance level and recall ( p = .01) only in the affective condition, after the manipulation in multivariate analyses , NA.

Techniques: Biomarker Discovery, Standard Deviation, Expressing, Concentration Assay