Asthma Clinics Helping Expand Cost Conversations

NCT ID: NCT04669080

Last Updated: 2021-09-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 65 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-01-04
• Study Completion Date: 2021-07-20

Brief Summary

Healthcare costs are a critical barrier to U.S. families' ability to access the preventive care needed to manage their children's asthma. Asthma specialty care teams are uniquely positioned to help families navigate these cost barriers, but lack structured approaches to discussing this sensitive and complex topic. This study will train asthma specialty care teams to identify families at risk for financial burden and engage in conversations about strategies to manage asthma care costs. The study team will evaluate the impact of a health care provider training on the frequency of cost navigation conversations. The investigators hypothesize that the health care provider training will increase the frequency of parent-reported cost conversations in the clinic.

Conditions

Asthma in Children

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Cost navigation training intervention

Group Type: OTHER

Health care provider cost navigation training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Health care providers and asthma educators in a pediatric asthma clinic will receive an online training about the importance of cost of care conversations, how to start cost of care conversations with families, how to refer families to cost navigation resources, and how to lead asthma specialty care teams in cost navigation.

Interventions

Health care provider cost navigation training

Health care providers and asthma educators in a pediatric asthma clinic will receive an online training about the importance of cost of care conversations, how to start cost of care conversations with families, how to refer families to cost navigation resources, and how to lead asthma specialty care teams in cost navigation.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Eligible caregivers will:

• attend a routine asthma care appointment for a 4-17 year old child
• screen positive for possible financial burden related to the cost of asthma care

Eligible healthcare providers will:

• be members of a pediatric asthma specialty care team

Exclusion Criteria

Caregivers will not be eligible if they:

• attend an appointment for conditions other than routine asthma care
• do not screen positive for possible financial burden related to the cost of asthma care

Healthcare providers will not be eligible if they:

• are not part of the pediatric asthma specialty care team in the participating clinic

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Melissa B Gilkey, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Locations

North Carolina Children's Allergy and Asthma Center

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

20-2616

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id