Advance Directives Completion Rates and an Intervention to Address Health Literacy in a Clinic Population
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Conditions studied: Health Literacy
In brief
The ability to communicate with patients is profoundly impacted by their health literacy - the ability to interpret documents, read and write prose, use quantitative information and speak and listen effectively. Limited health literacy is commonplace and associated with multiple poor health outcomes including frequent readmission's and high mortality. Advance directives are an important tool in respecting patient autonomy in health care interventions. Advance directives can also reduce health care costs by avoiding unwanted, unnecessary care at the end of life. At the University of Florida (UF) Health currently an initiative is underway to improve the delivery of advance directives to patients in the hospital as well as the outpatient clinics. The aim of this research study is to enhance completion rates of advance directives by taking into consideration a patient's health literacy level. Specifically, the investigators plan to assess the impact of an ambulatory intervention on the completion rate of advance directives for patients with adequate and limited health literacy. The hypothesis is that both groups (adequate and limited health literacy) will benefit from the intervention, but patients with limited health literacy will show a greater improvement in the advance directives completion rate.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02702284
- Run by
- University of Florida
- People needed
- 529
- Starts
- 2017-06-05
- Expected to finish
- 2018-11-15
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-11-19
Who can join
Age: 51 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- No advance directive in electronic medical record,
- speaks English,
- has intact cognitive function
You may not qualify if…
- Age 50 or under,
- already has an advance directive in electronic medical record,
- does not speak English,
- cognitive dysfunction
Where it is running
- Tower Hill Internal Medicine — Gainesville, Florida, United States
- Internal Medicine at Medical Plaza — Gainesville, Florida, United States
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