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The purpose of the Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative is to better understand access and barriers to health care and to enhance veteran enrollment or engagement in health care services of veterans residing in rural areas. It describes an intervention that is adaptable for use by other VA facilities that serve veterans in rural settings, and importantly, this study will improve our understanding of barriers to care and evaluate a method for enhancing access to care. The anticipated impact is that more veterans in rural areas who were previously under-utilizing VA services will receive and attend a health care appointment. This gain may improve preventative and primary care health care and reduce long term health care morbidity, expense and burden. This study may also identify previously unknown barriers to care that can be surmounted by innovative access and health care delivery approaches.

The primary objective is to evaluate an innovative approach for enhanced enrollment and engagement outreach intervention (EEE intervention) for rural veterans in VA health care services. This study entails a two-cell design, addressing this objective with a prospective, randomized controlled multi-site clinical trial that evaluates an active intervention compared to administrative outreach (AO, control condition) on whether or not a rurally-residing veteran obtains and attends a VA appointment.


Clinical Trial Description

Access, enrollment, and engagement with primary and specialty health care services present significant challenges for rural populations worldwide. The Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative evaluated an innovative outreach intervention combining motivational interviewing, patient navigation, and health services education to promote utilization of the United States Veterans Administration Healthcare System (VA) by veterans who live in rural locations. ;


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NCT number NCT01394081
Study type Interventional
Source Tuscaloosa Research & Education Advancement Corporation
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date October 1, 2008
Completion date October 1, 2013

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