Community and Clinician Partnership for Prevention

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation; Physical Activity; Dietary Habits
• Interventions: Other: Passive Intervention; Other: Active Intervention; Other: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT00577759
• Lead Sponsor: Duke University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of strategies to develop and foster the relationship between primary care practices and community resources to address specific unhealthy behaviors (tobacco use, poor nutrition, and lack of physical activity).

Detailed Description

Tobacco use, poor diet, and lack of physical activity are associated with the leading causes of significant morbidity and mortality, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory dysfunction. One solution to decreasing unhealthy behaviors would be to better integrate primary care providers with community resources, including community and public health organizations that already have the capacity and expertise to deliver effective interventions. This project is a randomized trial to evaluate different practice-level interventions to link practices to community resources to decrease unhealthy behaviors.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2007-12-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-12-17
• Study First Posted: 2007-12-20
• Study Start: 2008-02
• Primary Completion: 2008-11
• Study Completion: 2008-11
• Status Verified: 2012-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-02-12
• Last Update Posted: 2015-02-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 9

Inclusion Criteria

• Internal medicine and family practices in Durham and Orange counties, North Carolina

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Passive Intervention	Passive Intervention	Provision of information about community organizations to patients as above.
Active Intervention	Active Intervention	Direct referral to community organizations, with support for practices to do so. These include the North Carolina Tobacco Quitline, public health department dietitians, and the YMCA.
Usual Care	No intervention	Usual care

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of referrals from the practices to the community resources	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of referrals received by each resource	6 months
The proportion of patients with unhealthy behaviors who were referred from the practices to community resources	6 months
Practice attitudes and practice regarding referral to community resources	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Duke Clinical Research Institute; 🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States