Ecology of Medical Care - Utilisation of Health Care in Austria

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01261845

Acronym

ECOHCARE

Enrollment

3500

Registered

2010-12-17

Start date

2010-02-28

Completion date

2013-03-31

Last updated

2015-04-20

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Conditions

Health Behavior

Keywords

Delivery of Health Care, Equity in Health Services, Ethnic Groups, Health Services Research, Health Surveys, Immigration, Referral and Consultation, Resource Allocation, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations

Brief summary

BACKGROUND: A proper understanding of the attitudes towards its own health status and concise estimates concerning the health seeking behavior of the different subgroups of a population are highly desirable. The structure of the Austrian population with regard to its age distribution and the proportion of people with immigrant backgrounds have been rapidly changing in recent years. Questions of allocating limited resources and meeting the needs of under-served populations have become increasingly important. However, data that could illuminate these issues are sparse and therefore obtaining them will be important for making sensible policy decisions. METHODS: A telephone survey of the Austrian population for the assessment of the occurrence of any health complaint and the subsequent help seeking behavior with special emphasize on under-served minority groups - migrant population, elder people, and female gender. AIMS: Our analysis of the data obtained should help to clarify some hitherto undocumented aspects and should provide the evidence for building a better health care infrastructure with equality of access and efficient coordination. We also hope that this information can help to allocate resources strategically according to needs and cost-efficiency in health care.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

15 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* 15 years and older

Exclusion criteria

* younger than 15 years

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Prevalence of health complaints	1 month	The occurrence of any health complaint and the subsequent help seeking behaviour with special emphasis on under-served minority groups.
Prevalence of dysphoric disorders	2 weeks	The prevalence of depression and GAD will be assessed by the PHQ-2 and GAD-2 respectively.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Utilization of CAM	1 month	The utilization of CAM and a classification scheme for CAM methods in Austria.
Utilization of Health Care Resources in Austria	1 month	The utilization of health care resources of the Austrian population with respect to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary levels of care.
Case vignettes for calibration of response measures	1 month	The use of case vignettes to calibrate response measures across various ethnic minority groups.

Countries

Austria

Outcome results