None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This is a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and potential efficacy of a novel web-based electronic point-of-care tool, "e-HANDI," to facilitate GPs' prescription and patients' use of effective NDIs in primary care. e-HANDI is a web-based user-centred point-of-care tool that is systematically developed from the bottom-up to facilitate easier, practical prescribing of NDIs in primary care.
Interventions
e-HANDI is a web-based tool designed to assist primary care physicians (GPs) in prescribing non-drug interventions (NDIs). It's developed in collaboration with GPs and patients to ensure practicality and ease of use. e-HANDI is a standalone web-based tool that GPs will use during the consultation should they want to search for and/or prescribe evidence-based, effective, non-drug interventions. Patients can receive their prescriptions either paper-based or electronic (message or email). The presc
e-HANDI is a web-based tool designed to assist primary care physicians (GPs) in prescribing non-drug interventions (NDIs). It's developed in collaboration with GPs and patients to ensure practicality and ease of use. e-HANDI is a standalone web-based tool that GPs will use during the consultation should they want to search for and/or prescribe evidence-based, effective, non-drug interventions. Patients can receive their prescriptions either paper-based or electronic (message or email). The prescription and patient's use can be anonymously tracked and used to generate the feedback report. Key functions include the e-prescription of effective NDIs such as the Mediterranean diet and cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia and depression; feedback to GPs by generating reports for GPs comparing their NDI prescription patterns to peers and provide them with actionable plans to improve their prescription behaviours; and reminder systems to patients to encourage adherence to prescribed NDIs (i.e., fortnightly text messages for patients have not opened their prescription for 2 weeks). The intervention will be provided for the whole duration of the study (24 weeks).
Sponsors
NHMRC
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
We will recruit general practitioners (GPs) through our established networks of GPs including advertising by Australian Practice-Based Research Networks (e.g., GoldNet practice-based primary care research network in Southeast Queensland), and direct approach to GPs that are currently involved in various research programs within the Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare (IEBH). To be eligible, GPs should have been actively engaged in clinical practice within the past 12 months. Eligible participants may come from a range of experience levels and diverse geographical locations across Australia. Patients will be recruited through GPs and e-HANDI. To be eligible, they should be adult (>18 years old) with a chronic condition and prescribed one of the effective NDIs in RACGP HANDI.
Exclusion criteria
International GPs
Outcome results
None listed