Promoting Patient Engagement in Clinical Preventive Services: Evaluating the Use of Healthfinder

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: Healthfinder invitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03462186

HM20011992

Details and patient eligibility

About

Clinical preventive services (CPS) are fundamental to early disease detection and improvement of health outcomes but are often poorly understood and utilized by patients. Myhealthfinder is a web-based tool developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (https://healthfinder.gov). This study tests the "prescription" of myhealthfinder to engage patients in CPS, improve patient-clinician communication and increase uptake of CPS.

Enrollment: 1,092 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled wellness appointment with primary care provider

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to read English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,092 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Invitation to use healthfinder website

Treatment:

Other: Healthfinder invitation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention