- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01261845
Ecology of Medical Care - Utilisation of Health Care in Austria (ECOHCARE)
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.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
-
-
-
Vienna, Austria, A-1090
- Department for General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna
-
-
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Sampling Method
Study Population
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 15 years and older
Exclusion Criteria:
- younger than 15 years
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
Prevalence of health complaints
Time Frame: 1 month
|
The occurrence of any health complaint and the subsequent help seeking behaviour with special emphasis on under-served minority groups.
|
1 month
|
Prevalence of dysphoric disorders
Time Frame: 2 weeks
|
The prevalence of depression and GAD will be assessed by the PHQ-2 and GAD-2 respectively.
|
2 weeks
|
Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
Utilization of CAM
Time Frame: 1 month
|
The utilization of CAM and a classification scheme for CAM methods in Austria.
|
1 month
|
Utilization of Health Care Resources in Austria
Time Frame: 1 month
|
The utilization of health care resources of the Austrian population with respect to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary levels of care.
|
1 month
|
Case vignettes for calibration of response measures
Time Frame: 1 month
|
The use of case vignettes to calibrate response measures across various ethnic minority groups.
|
1 month
|
Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Otto Pichlhoefer, MD, MedUni Vienna
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Other Study ID Numbers
- 13683
- 13575 (Other Identifier: Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.
Clinical Trials on Health Behavior
-
Holbaek SygehusRecruitingHealth Behavior | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | Health-Related Behavior | Health LiteracyDenmark
-
Finnish Institute for Health and WelfareCompletedHealth Behavior | Health Care Utilization | Health Care Seeking BehaviorFinland
-
Basque Health ServiceUnknownHealth Promotion | Health Behavior | Health Education | Patient Education | Counseling | Behavior TherapySpain
-
University Hospital, Basel, SwitzerlandSolidarMed LesothoRecruitingRecruitment | Health Behavior | Motivation | Social Behavior | Health Care Utilization | Consumer Behavior | Health Care Seeking Behavior | Researcher-Subject RelationsLesotho
-
Imperial College LondonRecruitingHealth Attitude | Disease | Cancer | Health Behavior | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | Health-Related BehaviorUnited Kingdom
-
Research on Healthcare Performance Lab U1290RecruitingStress | Health Behavior | Health-Related BehaviorFrance
-
Azienda Sanitaria Locale CN2 Alba-BraUniversity of Turin, Italy; University of Eastern Piedmont; Eclectica Sas di...CompletedEffectiveness of the Updated Version of the School-based Program Diario Della Salute (DDS-2) (DDS-2)Mental Health Wellness 1 | Health Behavior | Adolescent BehaviorItaly
-
Research on Healthcare Performance Lab U1290RecruitingSedentary Behavior | Sedentary Time | Health Behavior | Health-Related Behavior | Physical InactivityFrance
-
World Health OrganizationLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; University of Ghana; Biomedical... and other collaboratorsRecruitingHealth-Related Behavior | Adolescent Behavior | Adolescent Development | Health Care Seeking BehaviorGhana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
-
Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt UniversityNot yet recruitingHealth Attitude | Health Behavior | Health KnowledgeTurkey