Asthma Clinics Helping Expand Cost Conversations

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma in Children
• Interventions: Behavioral: Health care provider cost navigation training

• Registration Number: NCT04669080
• Lead Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Brief Summary

Healthcare costs are a critical barrier to U.S. families' ability to access the preventive care needed to manage their children's asthma. Asthma specialty care teams are uniquely positioned to help families navigate these cost barriers, but lack structured approaches to discussing this sensitive and complex topic. This study will train asthma specialty care teams to identify families at risk for financial burden and engage in conversations about strategies to manage asthma care costs. The study team will evaluate the impact of a health care provider training on the frequency of cost navigation conversations. The investigators hypothesize that the health care provider training will increase the frequency of parent-reported cost conversations in the clinic.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-12-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-12-14
• Study First Posted: 2020-12-16
• Study Start: 2021-01-04
• Status Verified: 2021-06
• Primary Completion: 2021-06-21
• Study Completion: 2021-07-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-27
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 65

Inclusion Criteria

Eligible caregivers will:

• attend a routine asthma care appointment for a 4-17 year old child
• screen positive for possible financial burden related to the cost of asthma care

Eligible healthcare providers will:

• be members of a pediatric asthma specialty care team

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Exclusion Criteria

Caregivers will not be eligible if they:

• attend an appointment for conditions other than routine asthma care
• do not screen positive for possible financial burden related to the cost of asthma care

Healthcare providers will not be eligible if they:

• are not part of the pediatric asthma specialty care team in the participating clinic

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Cost navigation training intervention	Health care provider cost navigation training	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Frequency of Cost Conversations Occurring during Asthma Specialty Care Visits	Baseline, 6 weeks post intervention completion	Change in the frequency of caregivers reporting cost of care conversations with the asthma specialty care team during routine asthma care visits

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

North Carolina Children's Allergy and Asthma Center; 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States