Study of Screening Self-management Goals on Short Term Behavior Change

Study of Screening for Patients Self-selected Health Goal and Treatment Modality Prior to Primary Care Visit and the Effect on Short-term Behavior Change

The purpose of this study is to test whether having patients identify a self-management goal (health goal), prior to a visit with their primary care provider, leads to health behavior improvement over six weeks.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Patient Health Behaviors
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Self-management goal elicitation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 167
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Colorado
    • Denver, Colorado, United States, 80204
      • Level One Physicians
    • Denver, Colorado, United States, 80230
      • Lowry Family Health Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (>18 years of age)
• Attending primary care visit at Lowry Family Health Center or Level One Physicians
• English- or Spanish-Speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

• Exhibit signs of cognitive impairment or significant hearing impairment
• Provider recommendation against enrolling in study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control Group; This group will receive usual care.
Experimental: Self-Management Goal Elicitation; This group will receive usual care alongside a form that helps elicit self-management goals as well as preferred treatment modalities.	Behavioral: Self-management goal elicitation; The intervention will be a form, given prior to a primary care visit, that allows patients to express a self-management goal (health goal) they would like to work on, and a preferred treatment modality.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-rated health	Single item measure of self rated health: "How would you rate your overall health during the past week? (1=Very Poor, 7=Excellent)?" We will compare scores between groups as well as change over 6-weeks between groups.	6 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Health behavior improvement	Our secondary outcome measure will include a measure of behavior specific improvements. We will evaluate both component improvements for their specified behavior, as well as the composite score of negative health behaviors assessed from a series of questions.	6 Weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Denver Health and Hospital Authority
• Collaborators: Advancing Care Together; Colorado Health Foundation

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 3, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 5, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): September 6, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): September 22, 2014
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 18, 2014
• Last Verified: September 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Health Behavior; Behavior change; self-management goal; health goal
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHF-3848; 13-1523 (Other Identifier: COMIRB)