Delivering Patient-Centered Adolescent Preventative Care With Training and Technology
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Adolescent Behavior
- Sponsor
- Seattle Children's Hospital
- Enrollment
- 302
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Adolescent Satisfaction With Care
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Adolescents have some of the highest rates of risk behaviors of all age groups and health behaviors developed in adolescence can persist into adulthood. These behaviors carry significant risks for subsequent disease, disability, and healthcare burden. Despite these risks, health risk screening in primary care is infrequently performed and results are rarely followed by targeted intervention. In response to the need for screening-linked interventions, our study team has developed a web-based, electronic Personalized Motivational Feedback tool which we refer to as "Check Yourself." Based on motivational interviewing, a technique to mobilize personal change, Check Yourself is designed to promote healthy choices for the multiple behaviors relevant to adolescents as well as to provide information to providers to promote discussions around health behaviors between providers and adolescents.
Building on electronic health interventions, primary care providers can play an essential role in helping adolescents to make healthy behavior choices. Emerging evidence suggests that the consistency of preventive counseling can be increased through provider training and the provision of screening tools; yet, we know very little about the quality of such counseling, and if it impacts outcomes that are important to adolescent patients themselves.
This study is a stepped-wedge, controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of an interactive adolescent-centered training for primary care providers (I-ACT) and Check Yourself to usual care. This study will take place in six pediatric practices. The purpose of this study is to determine whether this system of interventions (i.e., I-ACT, Check Yourself, and the summary report) is more effective than usual care in reducing health risk behaviors, improving adolescent motivation for health, and improving quality of care among adolescents receiving primary health care services.
Investigators
Carolyn McCarty
Principal Investigator
Seattle Children's Hospital
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Eligible adolescent participants will be 13-18 years of age and caregiver participants will be 18 years of age or older and able to understand English. Eligible participants will have an appointment (or have a child with an appointment) with a participating medical practice.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Adolescents will be excluded from the study if they do not meet age requirements, do not have an appointment with a participating provider at a PSPRN clinic, lack the means to complete follow-up interviews (i.e., have neither telephone nor internet access), have a sibling who has been/is being enrolled in the study or have previously participated in our previous trial comparing Check Yourself to usual care, and/or are not able to understand English.
- •Caregivers will be excluded from the study if they do not speak English; or if their child is not eligible or declines to participate in the study .
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Adolescent Satisfaction With Care
Time Frame: 1-day
Adolescent satisfaction with care is assessed using one item adapted from the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) measure at 1-day follow-up. The CAHPS scale includes 10 values: 1 (min) to 10 (max). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Number of Health Risk Behaviors
Time Frame: 3 month
The risk behavior scale includes 22 values: 0 (min) to 21 (max). Higher scores indicate a worse outcome. Endorsement of any of the following counts as 1 (moderate risk) or 2 (high risk) on the scale depending on response and participant: ≥2 sugar-sweetened beverages consumed during typical day; ≤3 servings fruits/vegetables consumed during typical day; ≤3 days with 60+ minutes exercise during typical week; texting while driving in past 3 months; ≤7 hrs of sleep during typical night; not "always" using seatbelt; not "always" using helmet when bicycling; having driven under the influence of substances; tobacco use; days alcohol consumption in last 30 days (risk based on age) and/or number of drinks per drinking episode (risk based on age \& sex); days marijuana consumption in last 30 days (risk based on age) and/or other drug use in past 3 months; not using birth control during last sexual intercourse and/or not "always" using a condom; \& score of ≥10 on PHQ-9 depression.
Physical Activity
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported number of days with \>60 minutes of physical activity in an average week in the past 3 months. The physical activity scale includes 8 values: 0 (min) to 7 (max). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Caregiver Satisfaction With Care
Time Frame: 1-day
Caregiver satisfaction with care is assessed using the four items adapted from the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) measure at 1-day follow-up. Scores on this scale range from 3 (min) to 22 (max) with higher scores indicating higher satisfaction with care.
Sweetened Beverage Consumption
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported number of sweetened beverages consumed in a typical day in the past 3 months. The sweetened beverages scale includes 4 values: 0 (min), 1, 2, or 3+ (max) sweetened beverages per day. Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Alcohol Consumption (Frequency)
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported number of days of alcohol consumption in the past month. Alcohol frequency scale includes 31 values: 0 (min) to 30 (max) days in the past month. Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Helmet Use
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported frequency of helmet use while bicycling in the past 3 months. The helmet use scale includes 4 values: 1=never (min), 2=sometimes, 3=usually, or 4=always (max). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Texting While Driving
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported endorsement of texting while driving in the past 3 months. This question is only asked among adolescents who drive a car. The texting while driving scale includes 4 values: 1=never (min), 2=sometimes, 3=usually, or 4=always (max). Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported number of fruits and vegetables consumed in a typical day in the past 3 months. The fruits and vegetables scale includes 6 values: 0 (min), 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5+ (max). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Sleep
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported hours of sleep on a typical night in the past 3 months. The sleep scale includes 13 values: 0 (min) to 12+ (max) hours of sleep per night. Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Alcohol Consumption (Quantity)
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported number of drinks during a typical drinking episode in the prior month. The alcohol quantity scale includes 16 values from 0 (min) to 15+ (max). Higher score means a worse outcome.
Marijuana Consumption
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported number of days using marijuana in the past month. The marijuana frequency scale includes 31 values: 0 (min) to 30 (max) days in the past month. Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Seatbelt Use
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported frequency of seatbelt use in a car in the past 3 months. The seatbelt use scale includes 4 values: 1=never (min), 2=sometimes, 3=usually, or 4=always (max). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Condom and/or Birth Control Use
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported condom use with sexual intercourse in the past 3 months and/or use of birth control at last sexual intercourse. Two questions were used for this category. These questions were asked only to sexually active youth. The condom use scale includes 4 values: 1=always (min), 2=often, 3=sometimes, 4=never (max). Higher scores mean a worse outcome. The birth control scale includes 2 values: 0=no (min), 1=yes (max). Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Adolescent Perception of Patient-Centeredness
Time Frame: 1 day
The total score on the Consultation and Relational Empathy measure (CARE) is used to assess adolescent self-report of perceived patient-centeredness from their primary care provider. Scores on the scale range from 10 (min) to 50 (max) with higher scores indicating a better outcome.
Other Drug Consumption
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported use of other drugs in the past 3 months. The other drug score includes 2 values: 0=no (min) and 1=yes (max). Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Driving With Impairment
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported driving under the influence of a substance in the past 3 months. This question was asked only of adolescents who drive a car. The driving with impairment scale includes 2 values: 0=no (min) and 1=yes (max). Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Tobacco Use
Time Frame: 3 months
Adolescent self-reported tobacco use in the past 3 months. The tobacco use scale includes 2 values: 0=no (min) or 1=yes (max). Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Depression
Time Frame: 3 month
Adolescent self-reported depression as measured on the nine item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in the past 2 weeks. The PHQ-9 depression scale includes 28 values: 0 (min) to 27 (max). Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Secondary Outcomes
- Sleep(12 month)
- Marijuana and/or Other Consumption(12 month)
- Condom Use and/or Birth Control Use(12 month)
- Tobacco Use(12 month)
- Texting While Driving(12 month)
- Interval Receipt of Care Questionnaire(12 month)
- Readiness to Change Ruler Questionnaire(12 month)
- Marijuana and/or Other Drug Consumption(6 month)
- Sweetened Beverage Consumption(12 month)
- Physical Activity(12 month)
- Depression(12 month)
- Helmet Use(12 month)
- Number of Health Risk Behaviors(12 month)
- Seatbelt Use(12 month)
- Percent of Risk Behaviors Counseled on During Primary Care Appointment(1 day)
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption(12 month)
- Alcohol Consumption(12 month)
- Driving With Alcohol Impairment(12 month)