Community and Clinician Partnership for Prevention - Full Text View

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Duke University Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Information provided by:	Duke University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00577759

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of strategies to develop and foster the relationship between primary care practices and community resources to address specific unhealthy behaviors (tobacco use, poor nutrition, and lack of physical activity).

Condition	Intervention
Physical Inactivity Poor Diet Tobacco Use	Other: Active Intervention Other: Passive Intervention Other: No intervention

MedlinePlus related topics: Diets

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Single Blind (Subject), Placebo Control, Factorial Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Community and Clinician Partnership for Prevention

Further study details as provided by Duke University:

Primary Outcome Measures:

The number of referrals from the practices to the community resources [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Number of referrals received by each resource [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
The proportion of patients with unhealthy behaviors who were referred from the practices to community resources [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Practice attitudes and practice regarding referral to community resources [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment:	9
Study Start Date:	February 2008
Estimated Study Completion Date:	August 2008

Arms	Assigned Interventions
1: Experimental Active Intervention	Other: Active Intervention Quality improvement activities, including monthly teleconferences and chart audit with feedback, to help practices refer to community resources
2: Experimental Passive Intervention	Other: Passive Intervention Provision of tools to help with referrals to community resources
3: Placebo Comparator No Intervention	Other: No intervention No intervention

Detailed Description:

Tobacco use, poor diet, and lack of physical activity are associated with the leading causes of significant morbidity and mortality, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory dysfunction. One solution to decreasing unhealthy behaviors would be to better integrate primary care providers with community resources, including community and public health organizations that already have the capacity and expertise to deliver effective interventions. This project is a randomized trial to evaluate different practice-level interventions to link practices to community resources to decrease unhealthy behaviors.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Internal medicine and family practices in Durham and Orange counties, North Carolina

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00577759

Contacts

Contact: Alex R Kemper, MD, MPH, MS

919-668-8038

alex.kemper@duke.edu

Locations

United States, North Carolina
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27715

Sponsors and Collaborators

Duke University

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Alex R Kemper, MD, MPH, MS

Duke University

More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	Duke Clinical Research Institute ( Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS; Associate Professor )
Study ID Numbers:	Pro00004061, HHSA290200710014
Study First Received:	December 13, 2007
Last Updated:	December 17, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00577759 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Duke University:

Quality assurance, health care
primary health care
community health services
referral and consultation

exercise
diet
tobacco

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 07, 2009