A Direct-to-patient Intervention to Increase Rates of Osteoporosis Care

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Osteoporosis

In brief

The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized trial of a tailored intervention designed to provide personalized feedback regarding patients' risk of subsequent fractures, customized information regarding osteoporosis care, and messaging to activate patients to become more engaged in improving osteoporosis treatment and doctor-patient communication. This novel content will use "story-telling" delivered via the Internet and digital video discs (DVDs). The content will be uniquely tailored to each person based on barriers to care, age and race/ethnicity. We will conduct a controlled, cluster-randomized trial of this intervention to determine differences in post-intervention rates of osteoporosis care between two randomization arms. We hypothesize that participants randomized to the intervention arm, compared to those randomized to a control arm, will receive more osteoporosis care at 6 months post-intervention, as evidenced by higher rates of: (H1) Prescription osteoporosis therapies, (H2) Non-prescription therapy with calcium and vitamin D, and (H3) Bone mineral density (BMD) testing.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01907269

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

2684

Starts

2013-08-01

Expected to finish

2016-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-26

Who can join

Age: 55 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Self-reported history of fracture

You may not qualify if…

• Self-reported current prescription osteoporosis treatment

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
• University of Massachusetts at Worcester — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• New York University — New York, New York, United States
• Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Group Health Research Institute — Seattle, Washington, United States

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