Geisinger Education Intervention Study in Obesity Protocol
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 289
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Correlation of weight management referral rates and attitudes/barriers towards obesity
研究概览
简要总结
Overweight and obesity has become an epidemic which warrants more aggressive treatment. However, few primary care physicians (PCPs) address this issue or do not possess adequate education regarding treatment modalities such as nutrition counseling or bariatric surgery. The primary goal of this study will be to determine whether the referrals for weight management can be influenced through obesity education.
详细描述
Evaluation of educational interventions focusing on the treatment of obesity will include in person CME sessions, interactive game/virtual patient computer software and two 30 minute DVD/Web-based CME opportunities that the physicians can review at their leisure. These educational interventions were not completed as part of this research.
A control group will be comprised of those healthcare professionals who did not complete the CME survey.
Completion of the post education survey would be completed even if there was no study. The reward given to PCP's (free enrollment in CME session and either lab coat or $40 CME credit) was given for clinical purposes only and not for research. The study consists of the collection of PCP referral rates prior to the educational opportunity and then after the CME looking for a change to referral rates.
In June of 2009, an Obesity Educational Intervention Summit was attended by PCPs. This research seeks approval to perform data pulls consisting of referrals from their practice to the GI/Nutrition Clinic for potential bariatric surgery evaluation.
The information to be collected regarding the primary care providers' referral rates will be collected by a CDIS data pull by a data broker. The biostatistician will link survey responses to referral patterns and education type and will be true, only individual to have access to direct identifiers and in turn will provide PI and study team with de-identified summary data.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Geisinger General Internal and Family Medicine PCPs (include physician, physical assistants and CRNP):
- •PCP must be active between May 2008 - May 2009
- •Average patient age between 30-60 (no individual patients will be identified using personal identification)
- •Minimum of 100 patients assigned to PC
排除标准
- •PCPs from clinics/departments other than General Internal Medicine or Family Medicine will be excluded from the analysis
结局指标
主要结局
Correlation of weight management referral rates and attitudes/barriers towards obesity
时间窗: Referral rates are calculated over the course of one year
Referral rates to a weight management clinic will be evaluated and correlated with clinicians attitudes towards treatment of obesity (as assessed by questionnaire).
次要结局
- Change in referral rate by Continuing Medical Education and change in referral rate by clinician characteristic(Compare rates of referral in year prior to Continuing Medical Education versus one year after Continuing Medical Education and compare rates of referral in consecutive years)