GenetiKiT: Evaluation of the Impact of a Multifaceted Intervention to Enhance the Delivery of Genetics Services by Family Physicians.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 125
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Intention to refer to genetic services based on clinical vignettes
研究概览
简要总结
There is an urgent need for a knowledge translation strategy to facilitate the integration of genetics into family medicine, to improve the low knowledge base of most Canadian family physicians, ensure that the needs are met of those in the population who could benefit from genetic assessment, and facilitate evidence-based decision-making in the face of increasing patient demand.
We have developed a multi-faceted intervention incorporating three distinct knowledge translation strategies: interactive educational sessions, a portfolio of tools for use in clinical practice and an innovative, efficient, information technology-based knowledge service designed to provide timely ("just-in-time") information which reflects both topical genetics issues and the pattern of users' queries (a so-called "push-pull" approach).
We hypothesize that a multi-faceted knowledge translation intervention will improve the delivery of genetics services by family physicians.
详细描述
The intervention will be evaluated using a randomized controlled trial, in which family physicians will be allocated to receive the active or control interventions, with pre-intervention data collected 1 month prior, and post-intervention outcome data 6 months following the intervention.
A list of practicing family physicians will be obtained from the chiefs of Family Medicine at local hospitals in Toronto, Ottawa, Timmins, and Thunder Bay. We will develop a sampling frame for each site reflecting the proportion of solo and group practitioners in the community. A statistician independent of the study will generate a random number sequence to allocate practitioners to the control or intervention groups. There is a potential danger of contamination if two family physicians are recruited from the same group practice and randomized to different study arms, therefore only one physician per practice will be invited to participate in the study. Once one family physician has been recruited from a practice, all other physicians from the same practice will be deleted from the sampling frame.
Our intervention has three components: an interactive educational workshop, a portfolio of tools for family physicians to use in their day to day clinical practice, and a new IT-based knowledge service.
The workshop will deal with practical medical genetics knowledge, risks, benefits and limitations of genetic testing including psychosocial risks, confidentiality and insurance issues as well as a critical appraisal framework by which to assess genetic tests. The workshop will be 60 minutes in length and offered at several times and dates to facilitate attendance. The College of Family Physicians of Canada educational credit of 1 hour is available for participation in this project.
Several tools will be presented at the workshop:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 80 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •family physicians in active practice
- •practicing in one of the study communities
排除标准
- •only one family physician per group practice
- •physicians participating in one of the investigator's ongoing primary care genetics projects
结局指标
主要结局
Intention to refer to genetic services based on clinical vignettes
时间窗: 1 year
次要结局
- Perceived decisional conflict(1 year)
- Self-efficacy(1 year)
- Recall and understanding of information(1 year)
- Physicians' perceptions of the value of the components of the intervention(1 year)
研究者
June Carroll
Associate Professor
University of Toronto