Assessing the Effectiveness of a Health Literacy Intervention in the Workplace

Assessing the Effectiveness of a Health Literacy Intervention in the Workplace: A Quasi-experimental Pre-post Randomized Controlled Study

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a health literacy/motivational intervention in a workplace setting. Parents will be taught how to use a child health book to lessen inappropriate use of physician services and improve parent confidence in their ability to identify and obtain necessary assistance when their children are ill.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Literacy
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Motivational/health literacy education (Test group)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 52
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Missouri
    • Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108
      • The Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• currently employed at the Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, MO or KS, or working under contract
• parent/legally authorized representative/primary care giver taking care of a child birth to 12 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• non-English speaking and reading
• under 18 years old unless a minor parent
• a medical or nursing degree (MD, DO, Physician's Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, RN or LPN)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: SINGLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
NO_INTERVENTION: Control Group
EXPERIMENTAL: motivational/ health literacy education	Behavioral: Motivational/health literacy education (Test group); Attend a 1-hour class to learn how to use the book "What to Do When Your Child Gets Sick."

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
number of non emergency room clinician visits	Determine if parents/primary caregivers' attendance at a class to learn how to use a child health book leads to fewer non-emergency room clinician visits for their children.	within 1 week prior to class and 90 days post-class

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
number of emergency department visits	To determine if parents/primary caregivers attending a class to learn how to use a child health book leads to fewer emergency department visits	within 1 week prior to class and 90 days post-class
pre and post intervention measures of self-identified competency.	To assess feelings of parents/primary caregiver competence in appropriately managing their children's illnesses using pre and post intervention measures of self-identified competency.	within 1 week prior to class and 90 days post-class

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Bryan C. Provider and policy response to reverse the consequences of low health literacy. J Healthc Manag. 2008 Jul-Aug;53(4):230-41.
• Ensuring Positive Health Outcomes in Head Start Children and Famiies Pilot Study, Executive Summary. Herman A, September 2002

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: January 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): November 1, 2010
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): November 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 1, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 13, 2010
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): April 15, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): December 17, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 15, 2020
• Last Verified: December 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: health literacy; patient participation; consumer health information; patient education as topics/methods
• Other Study ID Numbers: 0912-255X