- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04075903
Gout in the ED and Improving Research Participation
Improving Care for Gout in the Southeast Enhancing Gout Minority Patients Care and Participation in Gout Clinical Research
Study Overview
Detailed Description
Gout is a chronic disease that affects over 9 million Americans. It is characterized by intermittent flares associated with severe pain. The prevalence of gout has been steadily increasing over several decades and it correlates with the rising burden of obesity, chronic cardiac and renal disease, all conditions overrepresented in the Southeastern U.S. - particularly in African Americans. In addition, many gout patients are not adherent with their follow-up visits due to a lack of awareness of the consequences of untreated gout and/or poor access to health care. As a result, US emergency departments (EDs) are delivering an increasing amount of gout care for underserved populations.
To address this significant public health problems teams at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are collaborating on a novel emergency department-led intervention aimed at improving the gout care patients receive, during periods of acute flare and long-term. Investigators hypothesize that the use of educational material including cultural appropriate stories about what it is like to live with gout and the use of navigators who will help patients better coordinate their care, will be associated with improved rates of patients that have a follow-up visit addressing gout after the ED visit. A secondary goal is to enhance participation of underrepresented minorities in biomedical research in the Deep South as part of an NIH funded gout center at UAB.
Investigators will recruit and enroll 280 adults (at least 18 years of age) that have confirmed gout. Participants will include men and women of all races/ethnicities. Recruitment will occur in the EDs at UAB and VUMC. Qualifying patients will be assigned by chance to get either 1) our enhanced educational materials coupled (at UAB) with a lay person who can help them coordinate their care or 2) to receive the current usual standard of care for their gout. After a gout diagnosis is confirmed by a research assistant, informed consent will be obtained. Following enrollment, participants will complete questionnaires at 3 and 6 months. Beyond follow-up visits, Investigators will also measure differences in the groups between the use of medication for gout treatment, other healthcare visits, changes in weight, satisfaction, and overall health during study follow-up. Leveraging the resources of UAB, including the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) funded Center of Research Translation (CORT) in gout and hyperuricemia and ongoing collaborations between these two medical schools, Investigators have assembled a multidisciplinary scientific team, uniquely prepared to execute the proposed study to help medically underserved gout patients and enhance research diversity in the Southeast.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: JEFF FOSTER, MPH
- Phone Number: 2059966086
- Email: pjfoster@uabmc.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Elizabeth Rahn, PhD
- Phone Number: 2059966552
- Email: elizabethrahn@uabmc.edu
Study Locations
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Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
- Recruiting
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Contact:
- Jeff Foster, MPH
- Phone Number: 205-996-6086
- Email: pjfoster@uabmc.edu
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Principal Investigator:
- Kenneth G Saag, MD, MsC
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Gout diagnosis meeting 2015 American College of Rheumatology and European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria,99,140
- Adult > 18 years of age, 3) Able to communicate and understand English language (a future objective, with additional resources, will include Spanish translation of all study materials).
Key exclusion criteria:
- History of specialty care visit for gout (e.g. rheumatology) in the past 2 years
- Life expectancy of < 6 months
- Past use of pegloticase (as a marker of past extensive gout care)
- Current critical illness leading to admission to high acuity medical care unit (ICU, stepdown unit) or requiring surgical intervention (general anesthesia) in the 2 weeks after ED visit
- Concomitant rheumatic disease including infectious arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or seronegative spondyloarthropathy.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Control
Usual Care
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Experimental: Intervention
Storytelling A health literacy-appropriate and culturally-adapted intervention delivered on a tablet computer containing "storytelling" to improve patient gout knowledge and approaches to prevent flares, destigmatize gout, and enhance readiness to adopt available long-term treatments for gout including medications, diet, and exercise, or ii) usual gout care (control state).
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A health literacy-appropriate and culturally-adapted intervention delivered on a tablet computer containing "storytelling" to improve patient gout knowledge and approaches to prevent flares, destigmatize gout, and enhance readiness to adopt available long-term treatments for gout including medications, diet, and exercise, or ii) usual gout care (control state).
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Outpatient primary care or specialist visits for gout treatment
Time Frame: 3 months
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Proportion of participants who attend a primary care or specialist visits for gout treatment
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3 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimated)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 300003869
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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