My Life, My Healthcare

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Disease

Treatments: Other: My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03017196

16-007340

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to answer the following questions: "Is the My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid feasible for use in primary care? Does it positively impact patient and healthcare teams' care experience and communication, while reducing patient treatment burden?"

Through implementation of the My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid for patients with chronic conditions, the study team hypothesizes that it will be feasible to implement in routine primary care practice and positively impact patient and healthcare teams experience of chronic care, while reducing patient treatment burden.

Enrollment: 1,929 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

InclusionCriteria: Particpant population will include patients 18 years of age or older who have one or more chronic conditions and do not have any barriers to consent (such as major cognitive disabilities) will be eligible for enrollment. Clinicians who treat patients with chronic conditions at participating sites are eligible for enrollment.

Exclusion Criteria: Patients who do not have a chronic condition, or have barriers to consent such as cognitive impairment will be excluded from the study. Health professionals who do not treat patients with chronic conditions will not be included.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,929 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Sites randomized to intervention will be expected to implement the My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid in their practice for at least a 6-month period.

Treatment:

Other: My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Sites randomized to control will not be expected to implement the My Life, My Healthcare Discussion Aid in practice. They will be expected to practice chronic care as usual.