Building on Existing Tools To Improve Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening in Primary Care Virtually: the Virtual BETTER Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Delivery Modality of BETTER Intervention
- Sponsor
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Enrollment
- 92
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Readiness to Change (University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale: URICA)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The focus of this project is to examine how delivering virtual care impacts health behaviour change for patients with chronic illnesses compared to in-person visits using a chronic disease prevention and screening (CDPS) program called BETTER (Building on Existing Tools To ImprovE Chronic Disease PRevention and Screening in Primary Care).
Detailed Description
While the current pandemic has launched a likely irreversible transition towards increased utilization of virtual methods for delivery of healthcare, we have only a very superficial understanding of how this shift will affect health outcomes and equity of access to health services. Several randomized trials comparing virtual to in-person delivery of health services have been completed, but none have examined the effect of interventions to address health behaviours, arguably one of the most challenging issues in healthcare and one that is most sensitive to the therapeutic relationship and modifiers to that relationship such as the mode of communication. The focus of this project is to examine how delivering virtual care impacts health behaviour change for patients with chronic illnesses compared to in-person visits using a chronic disease prevention and screening (CDPS) program called BETTER (Building on Existing Tools To ImprovE Chronic Disease PRevention and Screening in Primary Care).
Investigators
Kris Aubrey-Bassler
Associate Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Persons aged 40-70
- •Persons who are already booking a BETTER prevention visit.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Persons with the presence of a terminal illness
- •Persons in active treatment (i.e., systemic and/or radiation therapy) for cancer.
- •Persons who are unable to provide informed consent.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Readiness to Change (University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale: URICA)
Time Frame: Post-Visit (less than 1 week after visit)
To compare readiness to implement lifestyle change after telephone, video, and in-person BETTER Prevention visits. Min Score: 4 Max Score: 20 Higher scores indicate a higher readiness to change (better outcome)
Secondary Outcomes
- Satisfaction of Modalities (Client Satisfaction Questionnaire: CSQ-4)(Post-Visit (less than 1 week after visit))
- Acceptability(Enrollment (Pre-visit))
- Accessibility(Enrollment (Pre-visit))