Delivering Geospatial Intelligence to Health Care Providers

Overweight Clinical Trial

— CHICA GIS  

Official title:

Delivering Geospatial Intelligence to Health Care Providers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01567228
• Other study ID #: 1R01LM010923-01
• Secondary ID: 1R01LM010923-01
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 18, 2012
• Last updated: September 14, 2015
• Start date: September 2012
• Est. completion date: September 2014

Study information

• Verified date: September 2015
• Source: Indiana University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Physician counseling for physical activity, dental services, and academic support services such as tutoring could be improved through physician knowledge of local community resources and physician counseling directing patients to such services that are near the patient's residential address. This study will test the hypothesis that an electronic medical record enhanced with geographic information systems can improved physician counseling for physical activity, dental services, and academic support services by identifying services that are near the patient's residential address and informing MD's of such info at the point of care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1076
• Est. completion date: September 2014
• Est. primary completion date: September 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 1 Year to 21 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Referrals to three community resources will be studied: dentists (children older than 1 year), after school tutoring services (children older than 7 years), and physical education programs (children older than 5 years).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability of parent to complete data collection instruments spoken (via telephone survey) or written in English or Spanish.

• Inability to participate in community based physical activity programs due to health related condition

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Overweight

Intervention

Other:
• CHICA GIS (enhanced electronic medical record)
An electronic medical record enhanced with geographic information systems will assist physicians in directing patients to community resources for increasing physical activity, preventing dental caries or addressing school problems

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Wishard Health Services	Indianapolis	Indiana

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Indiana University	National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Improved physician counseling	For the intervention clinics, data gathered by CHICA-GIS on the physician worksheet and just-in-time handouts will also allow us to determine the percentage of children who received behavioral counseling about dentistry, school performance, or physical activity by the physician, as well as the percentage of children who were referred to a community resource.	6 months	No
Secondary	User experience and satisfaction	Surveys will be administered at baseline and end of the trial (18 months) to the entire staff of each practice, in order to document how each practice is organized and provide detailed information about community referral processes. Staff will also be asked about their satisfaction with the CHICA system, CHICA-GIS (Intervention Clinics only), and the community referral module (Intervention Clinics only).	24 months	No

External Links

•   Indiana University Children's Health Services Research