Ecology of Medical Care - Utilisation of Health Care in Austria

Completed

• Conditions: Health Behavior

• Registration Number: NCT01261845
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna

Brief Summary

BACKGROUND: A proper understanding of the attitudes towards its own health status and concise estimates concerning the health seeking behavior of the different subgroups of a population are highly desirable. The structure of the Austrian population with regard to its age distribution and the proportion of people with immigrant backgrounds have been rapidly changing in recent years. Questions of allocating limited resources and meeting the needs of under-served populations have become increasingly important. However, data that could illuminate these issues are sparse and therefore obtaining them will be important for making sensible policy decisions.

METHODS: A telephone survey of the Austrian population for the assessment of the occurrence of any health complaint and the subsequent help seeking behavior with special emphasize on under-served minority groups - migrant population, elder people, and female gender.

AIMS: Our analysis of the data obtained should help to clarify some hitherto undocumented aspects and should provide the evidence for building a better health care infrastructure with equality of access and efficient coordination. We also hope that this information can help to allocate resources strategically according to needs and cost-efficiency in health care.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-02
• Study First Submitted: 2010-12-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-12-16
• Study First Posted: 2010-12-17
• Primary Completion: 2011-10
• Study Completion: 2013-03
• Status Verified: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-04-17
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3500

Inclusion Criteria

• 15 years and older

Exclusion Criteria

• younger than 15 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Prevalence of health complaints	1 month	The occurrence of any health complaint and the subsequent help seeking behaviour with special emphasis on under-served minority groups.
Prevalence of dysphoric disorders	2 weeks	The prevalence of depression and GAD will be assessed by the PHQ-2 and GAD-2 respectively.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Utilization of CAM	1 month	The utilization of CAM and a classification scheme for CAM methods in Austria.
Utilization of Health Care Resources in Austria	1 month	The utilization of health care resources of the Austrian population with respect to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary levels of care.
Case vignettes for calibration of response measures	1 month	The use of case vignettes to calibrate response measures across various ethnic minority groups.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department for General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna; 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria