Computerized Risk Assessment in an Employee Population

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy

• Registration Number: NCT00153335
• Lead Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Brief Summary

This is a study to determine whether a computerized risk assessment and focused patient provider interaction can improve health outcomes in an employee population.

Detailed Description

The overall goal of the proposed research is to test the effectiveness of a theoretically-based interactive behavioral and health risk assessment system to improve the mental and physical health outcomes of the primary care provided for the adult multicultural members of a university health center-employee-based practice. The new system will include:

1. administration of a computerized behavioral and health risk assessment,

2. calculation of an individualized risk profile for each patient participant,

3. individual patient computerized video training in interaction focused on the risk profile,

4. physician training in patient-provider interaction, motivational interviewing and counseling, and in referral and triage focused on the risk profile, and

5. development of a negotiated care plan between patient and clinician for follow-up care.

Expected outcomes include changes in: risk category scores, utilization patterns, costs for health care services, and health stage of change indicators. Expected impacts (mediating variables) are: compliance with recommendations, health locus of control, differences in patient-provider interaction patterns and patient and clinician satisfaction. If successful, this methodology would contribute significantly to the health promotion goals of Healthy People 2010 and provide much needed evidence of how a behavioral and health risk assessment system can help to reduce ethnic health disparities of multi-cultural populations. This proposal is responsive to CDC's RFA for Health Promotion in the Workplace; in particular it responds to requests for strategy #6: Identification and evaluation of public health informatics and communication strategies and tools to improve health decisions, health alerting, health literacy, or health assessment among employees and employer.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-06
• Study First Submitted: 2005-09-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-09-07
• Study First Posted: 2005-09-12
• Study Completion: 2007-09
• Status Verified: 2010-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-02-24
• Last Update Posted: 2010-02-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• Employees who use University of New Mexico providers for medical care

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health outcome at one year
Satisfaction at time of visit
Utilization of health services at one year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stage of change for health behaviors at one year
Quality of life at one year
Work performance at one year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States