CALS Patient Activated Learning System (PALS)

Communication Clinical Trial

Official title:

Can the Digital Patient Activated Learning System Increase Racial Minority Engagement With Health Information? A Multi-Site Pilot Examination in New York State

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04212117
• Other study ID #: 19-08020714
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 18, 2020
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Cornell University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The overall goal in this line of inquiry is to test whether the Patient Activated Learning System (PALS) is effective in reducing disparities in access to reliable, easily understood health information, and whether this increased understanding has downstream consequences such as increases in trust in the medical system and self-management behaviors.

Description:

Participants will view, in randomized order, PALS or WebMD content on hypertension and on high cholesterol. This study will test knowledge uptake across topics as well as attitudes toward and trust in the information and information providers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 232
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: November 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient = 18 years of age.

• Self-reported hypertension diagnosis.

• English speaking

• Passing the cognition screener

• Able to read in English

• Patient at designated recruitment clinics

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-English speakers

• Not having self-identified as having hypertension

• Inability to read in English

• Being younger than 18

• Not passing the screener

• Not being a patient on the participating clinics

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communication
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Trust

Intervention

Other:
• The Patient Activated Learning System (PALS)
Randomization into PALS arm.
• WebMD
Randomization into WebMD arm.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Weill Cornell Medicine	New York	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cornell University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Knowledge	as measured by assessment questions on the nutrition information provided	Day 1, Immediately after reading article
Primary	Trust in eHealth	as measured by e-Health Impact Questionnaire by Kelly et al. on a 5-point likert scale where one is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly agree	Day 1, Immediately after reading article
Primary	E-health usability	as measured by e-Health Impact Questionnaire scale by Harris et al. on a 5-point likert scale where one is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly agree	Day 1, Immediately after reading article
Primary	Physician trust	as measured by assessment questions from Wake Forest Physician Trust Scale on a 5-point likert scale where one is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly agree	Day 1, Immediately after reading article