Family Preventive Visits to Detect Risk Factors in the Family

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Status: Completed

Conditions: Family Practice; Family; Adolescent Health Services; Primary Heath Care; Preventive Medicine

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Preventive Visit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01269086

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a systematic family assessment in adult preventive health visits increases the detection of risk factors in the spouse or adolescent child of the screened person.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of adolescents between 14-17 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Living with single parents.
• Does not accept participating in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Traditional care with no systematic assessment of family member´s health problems or risk factors.

Family Preventive Visit

Experimental group

Description:

Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Preventive Visit