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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Interventions: Other: Healthfinder invitation

• Registration Number: NCT03462186
• Lead Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-03-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-03-05
• Study First Posted: 2018-03-12
• Study Start: 2018-04-15
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-30
• Study Completion: 2019-08-14
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-27
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1092

Inclusion Criteria

• Scheduled wellness appointment with primary care provider

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Exclusion Criteria

• Inability to read English

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Healthfinder invitation	Invitation to use healthfinder website

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Uptake of clinical preventive services	3 months	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.
Change in communication and health knowledge	Immediately after the intervention	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

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Virginia Commonwealth University; 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States