Evaluating Effectiveness of Educational Intervention to Help Physicians Address Inappropriate Patient Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Prescription Medications

American Medical Association

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lumbosacral Muscle Strain

Treatments: Other: Web-based educational modules

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00915291

AMA-ES62

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether physicians can be educated to better handle inappropriate requests from patients for direct-to-consumer advertised prescription medications.

Full description

Since changes in FDA regulation direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), pharmaceutical companies have expended increasing resources to market their products to the public. This has led to increased awareness of diseases and potential treatments, but it has also created more public demand for medications that may not be appropriate for a patient's clinical presentation. This study aims to provide physicians with the knowledge and skills required to help them address inappropriate DTCA medication requests from patients.

Enrollment: 133 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident physicians in internal medicine or family medicine specialties at participating study sites

Exclusion criteria

• Completed less than 10 months of residency

Trial design

133 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual education

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants randomized into the "no intervention" arm were not exposed to the web-based educational modules

Web-based educational modules

Experimental group

Description:

Participants randomized into the intervention arm were exposed to the web-based educational modules

Treatment:

Other: Web-based educational modules