Diabetes
Conditions
Keywords
Audio recording, Diabetes Mellitus, Patient-centered communication, Self-management, Older adults, Doctor patient communication, Technology, Multimorbidity
Brief summary
The objective of this study is to conduct a multisite trial evaluating the impact of adding an audio recording of clinic visits (AUDIO) to usual care in older adults with multimorbidity, including diabetes, compared to After Visit Summary (AVS) alone (Usual Care; UC).
Detailed description
The objective of this study is to conduct a multisite trial evaluating the impact of adding an audio recording of clinic visits (AUDIO) to usual care in older adults with multimorbidity, including diabetes, compared to AVS alone (Usual Care; UC). The specific aims are: Aim 1 Conduct a three-site trial in primary care where older patients with multimorbidity including diabetes (n=336) will be randomized to receive an audio recording as well as AVS (AUDIO) versus AVS alone (UC) for all scheduled clinic visits over 12 months; patients will be assessed at baseline, 1 week, 6 months and 12 months. Applicants hypothesize (Main Effect) that: compared to those receiving UC, patients randomized to also receive audio recordings (AUDIO) of clinic visits will report a greater self-management ability (Primary Outcome), with improved quality of life, medication adherence, and satisfaction (Secondary Outcomes) at 12 months.
Interventions
OTHERClinic visit audio recordings for self-management in older adults
The intervention is audio-recordings of primary care clinic visits that are shared with participating patients. All scheduled visits with study clinicians will be recorded and shared with patients randomized to the intervention group (AUDIO) for 12 months.
OTHERUsual Care
The Usual Care arm participants will receive After Visit Summaries (AVS) per the standard delivery at each institution
Sponsors
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Patients will be randomly allocated to AUDIO or UC alone using a block randomization technique with the clinician acting as the blocking variable; this strategy will ensure an equal number of patients per clinician will be randomly assigned to each study arm
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
65 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients participants: Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who are ≥ 65 years; * Patients with multimorbidity (i.e. patient has diabetes and one or more chronic conditions including: arthritis, asthma, atrial fibrillation, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, depression, heart failure, hypertension, osteoporosis, kidney disease and stroke); * Have had two or more clinic visits in the previous 12 months; * Plan on receiving ongoing care at the clinic for the subsequent 12 months; * Do not have any vision or hearing problems that cannot be corrected; * Have not recorded a clinic visit for personal use i the past 6 months.
Exclusion criteria
* Without capacity to consent to the project; * With schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, substance-use disorders, uncorrectable hearing or visual impairment or a six item screener (SIS) cognitive function score ≤ 4; * Living in skilled nursing homes or hospice; * Patients who have audio- recorded a clinic visit for their personal use in the previous six months; * Patients who do not speak English or Spanish; * Patients who lack internet access; * Patients who (a) do not have access to a personal email, (b) do not have an email address shared with a family member or patient-identified caregiver, and (c) are not interested in creating an email account between the time they are first contacted by the study team to the time that the study team requires an email address to initiate the online recording software registration. Clinician participants: Inclusion criteria: * Licensed clinician (MD including clinician residents at Dartmouth Health locations, DO, APRN, NP, PA) * Are based at the study clinic; * Who treat adult patients.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Patient Activation Measure-Short Form | Patient activation at 12-months from enrollment | The Patient Activation Measure-Short Form is a 13-item patient reported measure. Scores range from 0 (low activation) to 100 (high activation). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adherence to Refills and Medications-D (ARMS-D) | Adherence at 12-months from enrollment | Eleven-item measure of medication adherence in diabetes. Two domains: i) Medication taking; and ii) medication refill. |
| Global PROMIS 10 | Global PROMIS 10 at 12 month from enrollment | Global PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System) is a 10-item patient reported measure with two domains: mental and physical health. Domain scores range from 4 to 20, with higher scores representing better health. |
| Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire-18 | Patient satisfaction at 12-months from enrollment | Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire-18 (PSQ-18) is a patient reported measure of satisfaction. It assesses seven sub-scales of satisfaction with care with scores ranging from 1 - 5 for each. We will use the two-item domain assessing general satisfaction. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORPaul J Barr, PhD
Dartmouth College
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORKerri L Cavanaugh, MD
Vanderbilit University Medical Center
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORMeredith C Masel, PhD
University Texas Medical Branch
Outcome results
None listed