Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 203
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Attendance at a VA Appointment
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of the Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative is to better understand access and barriers to health care and to enhance veteran enrollment or engagement in health care services of veterans residing in rural areas. It describes an intervention that is adaptable for use by other VA facilities that serve veterans in rural settings, and importantly, this study will improve our understanding of barriers to care and evaluate a method for enhancing access to care. The anticipated impact is that more veterans in rural areas who were previously under-utilizing VA services will receive and attend a health care appointment. This gain may improve preventative and primary care health care and reduce long term health care morbidity, expense and burden. This study may also identify previously unknown barriers to care that can be surmounted by innovative access and health care delivery approaches.
The primary objective is to evaluate an innovative approach for enhanced enrollment and engagement outreach intervention (EEE intervention) for rural veterans in VA health care services. This study entails a two-cell design, addressing this objective with a prospective, randomized controlled multi-site clinical trial that evaluates an active intervention compared to administrative outreach (AO, control condition) on whether or not a rurally-residing veteran obtains and attends a VA appointment.
详细描述
Access, enrollment, and engagement with primary and specialty health care services present significant challenges for rural populations worldwide. The Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative evaluated an innovative outreach intervention combining motivational interviewing, patient navigation, and health services education to promote utilization of the United States Veterans Administration Healthcare System (VA) by veterans who live in rural locations.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Screening
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Veterans who live in rural Alabama counties who have either never enrolled or have previously enrolled but have not accessed a VA in 2 years or more
- •Signed informed consent
- •Any race, social class or ethnicity
排除标准
- •Pending active legal charges or current/expected incarceration
研究组 & 干预措施
Enhanced Engagement and Enrollment (EEE)
Enhanced Engagement and Enrollment (EEE) consists of the outreach worker (interventionalist) engaging the participant in education (about VA resources and medical care), navigating the patient through the VA eligibility, enrollment, and scheduling processes, and using motivational interview to focus on ambivalence about attending a VA appointment.
干预措施: Enhanced Engagement and Enrollment (EEE) (Other)
Administrative Outreach (AO)
Administrative Outreach (AO) consists of the outreach worker giving the participants an application package to VA enrollment or phone number for the scheduling clerk. This intervention does not involve education, patient navigation (guidance through VA eligibility, enrollment, and scheduling processes) or motivational interviews (interviews focused on ambivalence about attending a VA appointment).
干预措施: Administrative Outreach (AO) (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Attendance at a VA Appointment
时间窗: 6 months
Attendance at a VA appointment was derived from VA clinical records, defined as the participant attending a scheduled VA clinic appointment. Participants who did not attend a VA clinic appointment be the end of 6-month observation period were classified as censored at 6 months.
次要结局
- Days Until VA Clinic Appointment(6 months)
研究者
Lori Davis, MD
ACOS Research and Development
Tuscaloosa Research & Education Advancement Corporation