Promoting Patient Engagement in Clinical Preventive Services: Evaluating the Use of Healthfinder

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Promoting Patient Engagement in Clinical Preventive Services: Evaluating the Use of Healthfinder

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03462186
• Other study ID #: HM20011992
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 15, 2018
• Est. completion date: August 14, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2020
• Source: Virginia Commonwealth University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Clinical preventive services (CPS) are fundamental to early disease detection and improvement of health outcomes but are often poorly understood and utilized by patients. Myhealthfinder is a web-based tool developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (https://healthfinder.gov). This study tests the "prescription" of myhealthfinder to engage patients in CPS, improve patient-clinician communication and increase uptake of CPS.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1092
• Est. completion date: August 14, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: March 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Scheduled wellness appointment with primary care provider

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to read English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Intervention

Other:
• Healthfinder invitation
Invitation to use healthfinder (healthfinder.gov/myhealthfinder

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Virginia Commonwealth University	Richmond	Virginia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Virginia Commonwealth University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Uptake of clinical preventive services	Percent up-to-datedness on cancer screening (cervical, breast, colon, lung cancer); immunizations (influenza, pneumonia) and cardiovascular disease (hypercholesterolemia, diabetes). This will be calculated based on the number of recommended services as identified on the healthfinder website based on age/gender that each patient has received within the recommended time frame.	3 months
Primary	Change in communication and health knowledge	Patient survey asking about knowledge of recommended preventive services and communication with clinician; qualitative themes from audio-recordings of clinician-patient visit with subset of randomly selected patients	Immediately after the intervention