Reminders, Cost Sharing, and Healthcare Use
23. august 2022 opdateret af: Lauri Sääksvuori, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
The investigators conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial in Finland by sending three types of information letters to households to examine whether the reminder letters affect healthcare use. All letters remind of the importance of seeking care to treat potential health problems.
This study has two primary objectives are: to evaluate the effects of an information nudge reminding on the importance of diagnosing and treating health problems and to evaluate the effects of additionally providing information on the fact that primary care nurse visits have become exempt from copayments. Main outcomes include the number of primary care nurse visits and general practitioner (GP) visits in a six-month follow-up.
Studieoversigt
Status
Afsluttet
Intervention / Behandling
Detaljeret beskrivelse
This study has two main objectives: (i) to evaluate the effect of an information nudge reminding on the importance of diagnosing and treating health problems and (ii) to evaluate the effect of providing information on the fact that primary care nurse visits have become exempt from co-payments.
Undersøgelsestype
Interventionel
Tilmelding (Faktiske)
47398
Fase
- Ikke anvendelig
Kontakter og lokationer
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Studiesteder
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Helsinki, Finland, 00271
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
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Deltagelseskriterier
Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
55 år og ældre (Voksen, Ældre voksen)
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Ja
Køn, der er berettiget til at studere
Alle
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- Residency in one of the 25 target municipalities as of September 15, 2021.
- Born in 1966 or earlier (aged 55 or more at the end of 2021).
- Living in a household with a maximum of three individuals aged 55 or above.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Individuals living in households (postal address) with more than three individuals aged 55 and above.
Studieplan
Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Primært formål: Sundhedstjenesteforskning
- Tildeling: Randomiseret
- Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
- Maskning: Tredobbelt
Våben og indgreb
Deltagergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / Behandling |
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Aktiv komparator: Basic letter
This reminder states that if healthcare is not consumed at the right time, health may deteriorate and diagnoses and treatment may be delayed.
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Reminders
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Aktiv komparator: Co-pay
This reminder states that if healthcare is not consumed at the right time, health may deteriorate and diagnoses and treatment may be delayed AND informs recipients about a new law that abolished all co-payments for all primary care nurse visits in Finland.
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Reminders
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Aktiv komparator: GP-Co-pay
This reminder states that if healthcare is not consumed at the right time, health may deteriorate and diagnoses and treatment may be delayed AND informs recipients about a new law that abolished all co-payments for all primary care nurse visits in Finland, AND informs recipients that the new law did not abolish co-payments related to general practitioner visits.
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Reminders
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Ingen indgriben: Control treatment
There is no intervention in the control treatment.
The entire population aged 55 and above in the treatment regions will serve as a control group.
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Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tidsramme |
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Number of nurse visits (as recorded in the Finnish National Register of Primary Health Care Visits)
Tidsramme: Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Number of doctor visits (as recorded in the Finnish National Register of Primary Health Care Visits)
Tidsramme: Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tidsramme |
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Number of referrals to specialized care (as recorded in the Finnish National Register of Primary Health Care Visits)
Tidsramme: Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Number of drug prescriptions for newly initiated therapies (as recorded in the Finnish national register for prescribed medicines)
Tidsramme: Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Six months starting from the date the letters are sent
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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
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Efterforskere
- Ledende efterforsker: Lauri Sääksvuori, PhD, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and University of Turku
Datoer for undersøgelser
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Studer store datoer
Studiestart (Faktiske)
1. oktober 2021
Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)
1. april 2022
Studieafslutning (Faktiske)
1. april 2022
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
5. oktober 2021
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
2. november 2021
Først opslået (Faktiske)
11. november 2021
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)
26. august 2022
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
23. august 2022
Sidst verificeret
1. august 2022
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- THL/3181/6.02.01/2021
Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)
Planlægger du at dele individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)?
INGEN
IPD-planbeskrivelse
This paper uses administrative health records maintained by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare.
Access to health records is regulated in Finland under the Act on the Secondary Use of Health and Social Data (552/2019).
De-identified individual participant data will be shared subject to approval by the competent data protection authority.
All statistical code used to organize and analyze the data will be shared.
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