Assessing the Effectiveness of a Health Literacy Intervention in the Workplace

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Literacy

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational/health literacy education (Test group)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01103986

0912-255X

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a health literacy/motivational intervention in a workplace setting. Parents will be taught how to use a child health book to lessen inappropriate use of physician services and improve parent confidence in their ability to identify and obtain necessary assistance when their children are ill.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• currently employed at the Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, MO or KS, or working under contract
• parent/legally authorized representative/primary care giver taking care of a child birth to 12 years old

Exclusion criteria

• non-English speaking and reading
• under 18 years old unless a minor parent
• a medical or nursing degree (MD, DO, Physician's Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, RN or LPN)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

motivational/ health literacy education

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational/health literacy education (Test group)