Promoting Patient Engagement in Clinical Preventive Services: Evaluating the Use of Healthfinder

January 27, 2020 updated by: Virginia Commonwealth University
Clinical preventive services (CPS) are fundamental to early disease detection and improvement of health outcomes but are often poorly understood and utilized by patients. Myhealthfinder is a web-based tool developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (https://healthfinder.gov). This study tests the "prescription" of myhealthfinder to engage patients in CPS, improve patient-clinician communication and increase uptake of CPS.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

1092

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Virginia
      • Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298
        • Virginia Commonwealth University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Scheduled wellness appointment with primary care provider

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inability to read English

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
No intervention
Experimental: Intervention
Invitation to use healthfinder website
Other: Healthfinder invitation
Invitation to use healthfinder (healthfinder.gov/myhealthfinder

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Uptake of clinical preventive services
Time Frame: 3 months
Percent up-to-datedness on cancer screening (cervical, breast, colon, lung cancer); immunizations (influenza, pneumonia) and cardiovascular disease (hypercholesterolemia, diabetes). This will be calculated based on the number of recommended services as identified on the healthfinder website based on age/gender that each patient has received within the recommended time frame.
3 months
Change in communication and health knowledge
Time Frame: Immediately after the intervention
Patient survey asking about knowledge of recommended preventive services and communication with clinician; qualitative themes from audio-recordings of clinician-patient visit with subset of randomly selected patients
Immediately after the intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Virginia Commonwealth University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sebastian Tong, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 15, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 30, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

August 14, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 5, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 5, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

March 12, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

January 28, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 27, 2020

Last Verified

January 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • HM20011992

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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.

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