Mobile Unit Screening of Pathologies Associated With Chronic Diseases - Feasibility

Completed

• Conditions: Type II Diabetes; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Atherosclerosis
• Interventions: Other: Patient recruitment; Procedure: Mobile team exam

• Registration Number: NCT02214056
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Brief Summary

The main objective of this study is to assess the feasibility of standardized screening for comorbidities among patients with one or more of three chronic diseases (diabetes, COPD, atherosclerosis) by a mobile unit at times and localities under-served by health actors.

Detailed Description

The investigators secondary objectives include assessing patient and GP satisfaction in relation to the mobile screening team.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2014-08-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-08-08
• Study First Posted: 2014-08-12
• Study Start: 2015-02
• Status Verified: 2015-04
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Study Completion: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-05-05
• Last Update Posted: 2015-05-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 27

Inclusion Criteria

• The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent
• The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
• The patient has one or more of the following three diseases: (1) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); (2) type II diabetes; (3) atherosclerosis.

Exclusion Criteria

• The patient is participating in another study
• The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study
• The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship
• The patient refuses to sign the consent
• It is impossible to correctly inform the patient
• There is a need to take urgent therapeutic care in the opinion of the general practitioner
• The patient has received within the past year, a full examination including Doppler assessment of supra-aortic arteries, abdominal aorta and lower limbs; the patient has received a measure of the ankle-brachial index at the toe.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
The study population	Mobile team exam	There is only one group in this study. Please see the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Intervention: Patient recruitment Intervention: Mobile team exam
The study population	Patient recruitment	There is only one group in this study. Please see the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Intervention: Patient recruitment Intervention: Mobile team exam

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percentage of eligible patients who actually received the mobile team exam	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percentage of mobile team exams in which one or more comorbidities was discovered	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Average time required for the patient to fill out questionnaires	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Percentage of complete mobile team exams, that is to say in which all the data and all the variables have been collected and interpreted	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Average per patient time necessary to carry out the mobile team exam	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
GP and patient acceptability of the mobile team exam	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)	Visual analog scales (ranging from 0 to 10) for access, delays, organization and satisfaction.
Observance: percentage of patients included that actually received the balance sheet	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Time in days between making the appointment by the general practitioner and the mobile team exam	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Percentage of GPs who participated in the study	Day of mobile team exam (day 0)

Trial Locations

Locations (13)

Cabinet Médical - 154 Place de la Poste; 🇫🇷 Lasalle, France

Cabinet Médical - 5 rue Abbé Masson; 🇫🇷 La Grand Combe, France

Cabinet Médical - Pont de Grammal; 🇫🇷 Molières-sur-Cèze, France

Cabinet Médical - 15 rue du Lac; 🇫🇷 Quissac, France

Cabinét Médical - 9 rue Villeneuve; 🇫🇷 St Jean du Gard, France

Cabinet Médical - 36 place de l'Esplanade; 🇫🇷 St Ambroix, France

Centre Médical La Cantonnade; 🇫🇷 St Florent sur Auzonnet, France

Cabinet Médical - 47 rue de la République; 🇫🇷 Besseges, France

Centre de Santé Médical; 🇫🇷 Besseges, France

Centre médical des Olivettes; 🇫🇷 Ganges, France

Cabinet Médical - Les Glycines; 🇫🇷 Lasalle, France

Cabinet Médical - 9 rue Racine; 🇫🇷 Nîmes, France

Cabinet Médical - 7 bis avenue Rhin Danube; 🇫🇷 Sauve, France