Health Care Use During the Covid19 Crisis

Health Care Utilization Clinical Trial

— US3R  

Official title:

Utilisation de Soins Pendant la Crise Covid-19 : Recours, Report et Renoncement (US3R)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04372030
• Other study ID #: US3R
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: June 2022
• Source: Université Catholique de Louvain
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The project US3R is a general population survey that will measure the magnitude of utilised, postponed and foregone medical care in relation with other health care needs than coronavirus symptoms during the confinement period in Belgium. The study aims to describe the magnitude of unsatisfied health care needs for various types of care. It will also identify the reasons for these postponed and foregone care according to gender, health and socioeconomic status.

Description:

Context:

Belgium has put in place confinement measures on March 13th 2020 with the aim to reduce contagion related to Covid19 in the population and manage the number of patients to be treated in the hospital.

However, some weeks after those confinement measures, health care professionals are worry about other patients than Covid19 since they have observed a significantly lower use of emergency services, cancellations of screening appointments, interrupted health care in patients with chronic conditions, disabilities, or mental health disorders.

Objectives: to collect data on used, postponed and foregone medical care related to other health care needs than Covid19 during the confinement period in Belgium; to measure the magnitude of unsatisfied health care needs for various types of care; to identify the reasons explained postponed and foregone care

Methods : the survey is made of about 50 questions collecting self-reported data on health care use and non-use for various types of care along with demographics, socioeconomics and health status characteristics during the confinement period . Data will be analysed with Stata 15 using statistical tests and regression models.

Participants are collected via social media platforms and institutionnal mailing, and Belgian newspapers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 3164
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• living in Belgium

• more than 18

Exclusion Criteria:

• living outside Belgium

• less than 18

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID-19
• Health Care Utilization

Intervention

Other:
• Online questionnaire
this is an online questionnaire collecting retrospective data on health care use and non-use

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	UCLouvain	Bruxelles

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Université Catholique de Louvain

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Health care use	Number of person reporting that they used health care during confinement (yes/no)	throughout the whole study, assessed up to 18 months
Primary	Postponed heath care use	Self-reported postponed health care use (yes/no)	throughout the whole study, assessed up to 18 months
Primary	Foregone health care use	Self-reported foregone health care use (yes/no)	throughout the whole study, assessed up to 18 months