Evaluating Effectiveness of Educational Intervention to Help Physicians Address Inappropriate Patient Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Prescription Medications
- Conditions
- Lumbosacral Muscle Strain
- Interventions
- Other: Web-based educational modules
- Registration Number
- NCT00915291
- Lead Sponsor
- American Medical Association
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether physicians can be educated to better handle inappropriate requests from patients for direct-to-consumer advertised prescription medications.
- Detailed Description
Since changes in FDA regulation direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), pharmaceutical companies have expended increasing resources to market their products to the public. This has led to increased awareness of diseases and potential treatments, but it has also created more public demand for medications that may not be appropriate for a patient's clinical presentation. This study aims to provide physicians with the knowledge and skills required to help them address inappropriate DTCA medication requests from patients.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 133
- Resident physicians in internal medicine or family medicine specialties at participating study sites
- Completed less than 10 months of residency
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Web-based educational modules Web-based educational modules Participants randomized into the intervention arm were exposed to the web-based educational modules
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Decision to prescribe celecoxib
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (4)
Creighton University School of Medicine
🇺🇸Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Stanford University School of Medicine
🇺🇸Stanford, California, United States
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
🇺🇸Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
University of Texas at Houston Medical School
🇺🇸Houston, Texas, United States