MyHealtheVet to Enable Shared Decision Making Regarding Menopausal in Postmenopausal Women Veterans (MEANS)

Miami VA Healthcare System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Menopause

Treatments: Other: Menopause educational secure messaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03109145

15911255 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Pfizer-MEANS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to examine the impact of educational secure messages on menopause. In particular, the investigators will examine whether the secure messages increase menopause knowledge and communication between patients and their providers.

Full description

The overall goal of this project is to determine the effectiveness of the MEANS (MyHealtheVet to Enable And Negotiate for Shared decision making) intervention in improving women's self-reported knowledge and rates of diagnosis and appropriate management of menopause symptoms. The proposed intervention is an educational and shared decision making platform for menopause symptoms to improve communication between patients and their providers regarding menopause symptoms. MEANS combines educational secure messages through the Veterans Affairs online Personal Health Record called MyHealtheVet, along with face-to-face and print interventions.

MEANS will be applied in target population consisting of postmenopausal women Veterans ages 45 to 60 who receive primary care at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. This project will enroll women in MyHealtheVet, develop a library of menopause symptoms material for distribution, and evaluate how useful of MyHealtheVet use for educating and tracking women regarding menopause symptoms.

Enrollment: 859 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 45 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women Veterans, age 45-60
• Receive primary care at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
• Able to communicate in English
• Already or willing to register and become authenticated in the patient health portal, MyHealtheVet.
• Able to use read, understand, and respond to secure messages using patient health portal.

Exclusion criteria

• Not willing to register and become authenticated for patient health portal.
• Not willing to receive educational secure messages from patient health portal.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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859 participants in 2 patient groups

Menopause educational secure messaging

Experimental group

Description:

Secure messages that provide information about menopause and treatment option for menopause symptoms.

Treatment:

Other: Menopause educational secure messaging

Usual care: Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group of eligible women patients between 45-60 years who do not receive the intervention at the West Palm Beach and Orlando Veterans Healthcare System. Usual care participants did not receive the educational secure messages.