HKCFP-HKU Primary Care Morbidity Survey in Hong Kong

Primary Health Care Clinical Trial

Official title:

HKCFP-HKU Primary Care Morbidity Survey in Hong Kong

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04736992
• Other study ID #: HKUCTR-2916
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 7, 2021
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: The University of Hong Kong
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

Information about the health problems of patients presenting in primary care is crucial to understanding the health of the general community for the planning and allocation of health care resources. Practice-based morbidity studies conducted in primary care settings have proven to be helpful in documentation of disease prevalence and for service planning. With the change in morbidity pattern and the aging population, our study will help to inform primary health care policy and guide work force and service planning.

Method:

This is a prospective practice-based study of health problems presenting in primary care. Doctors who agree to participate in the study will record the health problem and type of management performed in consecutive patient encounters for one of the designated weeks during each season over the course of one year.

Analysis:

Data collected will be analysed by descriptive statistics, comparison with data from previous morbidity study, and by non-linear mixed effects for factors associated with morbidity and management patterns in primary care.

Results:

Findings will will 1) provide evidence to support the allocation of resources to continue and to expand primary care initiatives that support the provision of quality chronic disease care in private sector, 2) enable continued surveillance of the morbidity trends in Hong Kong by providing data for comparison with past and future studies, and 3) inform the content of educational curricula for medical and health care students and practitioners to prepare them to better meet the needs of the community.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 49
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Consented primary care doctors in Hong Kong who are working in:

• the public sector (GOPC), or

• Department of Health Clinic, or

• private solo or group practices, or

• university health services, or

• non-profit organizations, or

• private hospital family medicine clinics

Exclusion Criteria:

• Doctors who do not consent

• Doctors who are not working as primary care doctors

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Primary Health Care

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention involved
No intervention involved

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Prevalence of health problems and diseases presenting in primary care		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months
Primary	Rates of management activities including referral, investigation, prescription and preventive care intervention by primary care doctors		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months
Primary	Distribution of health problems and diseases presenting in the public compared with the private primary care setting		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months
Primary	Factors which affect the proportion and distribution of health problems in the public sector compared with the private sector		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months
Secondary	Prescription rates of specific classes of drugs including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, NSAIDs, and antibiotics		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months
Secondary	Seasonal variation in primary care morbidity pattern		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months
Secondary	Relationship between patient's presenting problem and doctor's diagnosis		immediately after completion of data collection, up to 6 months