Patient Activation After DXA Result Notification

Osteoporosis Clinical Trial

— PAADRN  

Official title:

Patient Activation After DXA Result Notification

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01507662
• Other study ID #: 201107758
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 2012
• Est. completion date: November 2015

Study information

• Verified date: November 2020
• Source: University of Iowa
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

There is growing evidence that patients undergoing bone mineral density testing (BMD) often do not take important steps to improve their bone health. The investigators will conduct a randomized-controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a novel and practical patient activation intervention (mailing patients their bone density test results) on the quality of bone-related healthcare and the cost-effectiveness of BMD testing. Equally important, the investigators intervention could easily be modified to include other patient populations and chronic diseases.

Description:

Bone mineral density (BMD) peaks in early adulthood and declines progressively with aging. As BMD declines from normal, to low (formerly called osteopenia), to osteoporosis, risk of fractures progressively increases. In an effort to prevent bone loss and reduce fracture risk, most widely accepted guidelines including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and Surgeon General's Office now recommend BMD screening of older adults using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The rationale for screening is that patients and their providers will use DXA results as a "cue to action" and take necessary steps to enhance bone health through lifestyle modification (e.g., weight bearing exercise), Calcium/Vitamin D supplementation, and pharmacotherapy when indicated. However, multiple studies have demonstrated that patients and providers often fail take recommended actions following DXA testing, thus defeating much of the purpose of screening. Over the past five years we have systematically developed and pilot tested a low-cost and practical patient activation intervention based upon the Health Belief Model. The intervention consists of the DXA scanning center mailing each patient a customized letter containing the results of their DXA scan plus educational information about osteoporosis, supplemented by a follow-up phone call from a nurse educator. Preliminary studies have demonstrated that the intervention is well received by both patients and providers and enhances bone-related quality of care. The overarching objective of the current proposal is to rigorously examine the impact of our patient activation intervention on bone-related quality of care in adults undergoing screening DXA scans through a randomized-controlled trial conducted at three study sites. In addition, we will examine the real-world costs associated with our intervention and the impact of our intervention on the overall cost-effectiveness of BMD screening. We hypothesize that the activation intervention will increase optimization of Calcium/Vitamin D intake, enhance use of pharmacotherapy when indicated, will improve patient satisfaction with their bone-related healthcare, and improve patients' osteoporosis specific knowledge when compared with usual care

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 7749
• Est. completion date: November 2015
• Est. primary completion date: November 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 50 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. patients presenting for DXA

2. age 50 years of age or older

Exclusion Criteria:

1. non-English speakers

2. prisoners

3. people who have mental disabilities

4. individuals younger than age 50 years

5. individuals who do not have access to a telephone

6. deaf patients

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bone Diseases
• Bone Diseases, Metabolic
• Metabolic Diseases
• Osteoporosis

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Bone Mineral Density Result Letter and Bone Health Brochure
Letter mailed to patient to include - Date of DXA, T-score, impression, 10 year major fracture risk with visual depiction of risk, basic bone health guidelines, instructions to follow-up with their healthcare provider. The brochure will include information on osteoporosis, calcium, vitamin D, medicines, exercise, tobacco and alcohol cessation and where to find more information.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	University of Toronto	Toronto	Ontario
United States	Kaiser Permanente Georgia	Atlanta	Georgia
United States	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Alabama
United States	University of Iowa	Iowa City	Iowa

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fredric D Wolinsky	Kaiser Permanente, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Pittsburgh, University of Toronto

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Canada, 

References & Publications (7)

Cram P, Wolinsky FD, Lou Y, Edmonds SW, Hall SF, Roblin DW, Wright NC, Jones MP, Saag KG; PAADRN Investigators. Patient-activation and guideline-concordant pharmacological treatment after bone density testing: the PAADRN randomized controlled trial. Osteo — View Citation

Edmonds SW, Cram P, Lou Y, Jones MP, Roblin DW, Saag KG, Wright NC, Wolinsky FD; PAADRN Investigators. Effects of a DXA result letter on satisfaction, quality of life, and osteoporosis knowledge: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 20 — View Citation

Edmonds SW, Cram P, Lu X, Roblin DW, Wright NC, Saag KG, Solimeo SL; PAADRN Investigators. Improving bone mineral density reporting to patients with an illustration of personal fracture risk. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2014 Nov 25;14:101. doi: 10.1186/s12911-014-0101-y. — View Citation

Edmonds SW, Solimeo SL, Lu X, Roblin DW, Saag KG, Cram P. Developing a bone mineral density test result letter to send to patients: a mixed-methods study. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2014 Jun 5;8:827-41. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S60106. eCollection 2014. — View Citation

Edmonds SW, Solimeo SL, Nguyen VT, Wright NC, Roblin DW, Saag KG, Cram P. Understanding Preferences for Osteoporosis Information to Develop an Osteoporosis Patient Education Brochure. Perm J. 2017;21:16-024. doi: 10.7812/TPP/16-024. Epub 2016 Nov 18. — View Citation

Edmonds SW, Wolinsky FD, Christensen AJ, Lu X, Jones MP, Roblin DW, Saag KG, Cram P; PAADRN Investigators. The PAADRN study: a design for a randomized controlled practical clinical trial to improve bone health. Contemp Clin Trials. 2013 Jan;34(1):90-100. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2012.10.002. Epub 2012 Oct 17. — View Citation

Wolinsky FD, Lou Y, Edmonds SW, Hall SF, Jones MP, Wright NC, Saag KG, Cram P, Roblin DW; PAADRN Investigators. Activating Patients With a Tailored Bone Density Test Results Letter and Educational Brochure: the PAADRN Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin D — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Guideline Concordant Osteoporosis Therapy	Guideline concordant was defined as those who prescribed a National Osteoporosis Foundation approved osteoporosis therapy for patients with osteoporosis (T-score of femoral neck, hip, or spine =-2.5 or FRAX =20 %), or patients with a self-reported history of low impact fracture, or patients with osteopenia (T-score between -1.0 and -2.5 at the femoral neck, hips, or lumbar spine) and a 10-year probability of a major osteoporosis-related fracture =20 % OR those who were not prescribed a therapy for patients with no self-reported history of prior DXA and study DXA shows normal BMD and no self-reported history of low impact fracture, or study DXA shows osteopenia (T-score of femoral neck, hip, or spine between -1 and -2.5) and FRAX <20 %) and no self-reported history of low impact fracture, or self-reported prior DXA but no self-reported history of low impact fracture and no self-reported history of osteoporosis.	12 weeks after DXA