Conversational IT for Better, Safer Pediatric Primary Care

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Preventive Care, Medication Management

In brief

Interactive telephony technologies offer a potentially highly effective, patient-centered communication modality by guiding parents at home through interactive discussions that can gather information and actively reinforce recommendations and treatments. Interactive telephony systems are particularly well suited for use in vulnerable populations since access to the telephone is nearly universal, and the system does not rely on reading printed text. The investigators propose to develop and evaluate an integrated patient-centered health information system, the Personal Health Partner (PHP). The PHP will use fully automated, interactive, conversations to gather personal health data and counsel parents before scheduled visits, exchange that data with the child's primary care clinician via the electronic health record (EHR), and offer personalized follow-up assessment and counseling after visits. The information technology-based approach to be evaluated in this project will link parents and children outside the clinical setting with their primary care center and will offer comprehensive assessments AND counseling to reinforce and support parental behavior change.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01188629

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

475

Starts

2007-07-01

Expected to finish

2011-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-11-18

Who can join

Age: any, up to 11. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Parents of children will be enrolled in the study if they meet a set of eligibility criteria which includes:
• Age 0 - 11 years old
• A primary care patient at Boston Medical Center
• An English speaking child and parent.

You may not qualify if…

• Children will be considered ineligible for the study if they plan to move away from the Boston area in less than 3 months, or are participating in another primary care research project with content that overlaps the content within this study. Currently, there are no studies being conducted that would lead to exclusion.

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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