Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Problems With Access to Health Care, Health Behavior

In brief

The purpose of the Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative is to better understand access and barriers to health care and to enhance veteran enrollment or engagement in health care services of veterans residing in rural areas. It describes an intervention that is adaptable for use by other VA facilities that serve veterans in rural settings, and importantly, this study will improve our understanding of barriers to care and evaluate a method for enhancing access to care. The anticipated impact is that more veterans in rural areas who were previously under-utilizing VA services will receive and attend a health care appointment. This gain may improve preventative and primary care health care and reduce long term health care morbidity, expense and burden. This study may also identify previously unknown barriers to care that can be surmounted by innovative access and health care delivery approaches. The primary objective is to evaluate an innovative approach for enhanced enrollment and engagement outreach intervention (EEE intervention) for rural veterans in VA health care services. This study entails a two-cell design, addressing this objective with a prospective, randomized controlled multi-site clinical trial that evaluates an active intervention compared to administrative outreach (AO, control condition) on whether or not a rurally-residing veteran obtains and attends a VA appointment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01394081

Run by

Tuscaloosa Research & Education Advancement Corporation

People needed

203

Starts

2008-10-01

Expected to finish

2013-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-04-23

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Veterans who live in rural Alabama counties who have either never enrolled or have previously enrolled but have not accessed a VA in 2 years or more
• Signed informed consent
• Any race, social class or ethnicity

You may not qualify if…

• Pending active legal charges or current/expected incarceration

Where it is running

• Birmingham VAMC — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Tuscaloosa VAMC — Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

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