Adapting Enhanced Recovery Programs for Low Health Literacy Patients
Recruiting now · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Surgery, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Colorectal Disorders
In brief
Low health literacy patients are a vulnerable population at high-risk for surgical disparities including longer hospital stays, more complications, and more readmissions. This study will adapt enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) to low health literacy patients with a multilevel, health literacy-based implementation strategy (called VISACT - VISuAl aids, Coach providers in communication, and Train organizations in health literacy) to improve ERP fidelity and thereby outcomes. In the final aim of this project (Specific Aim 3), the VISACT intervention will be tested in a pilot trial. Findings from this study will lay the foundation for a multi-institutional stepped-wedge trial and establish key principles for adapting interventions to eliminate disparities.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06356558
- Run by
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- People needed
- 1050
- Starts
- 2026-06-15
- Expected to finish
- 2028-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-06-29
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult patients >= 18 years of age undergoing surgery under an enhanced recovery program (ERPs)
- Adult caregivers/providers, organizational leaders, >= 18 years of age with direct or indirect involvement with ERP implementation
- All genders
- All race/ethnicities
- Able to consent
- English-speaking
You may not qualify if…
- Child (<18 years of age)
- Patients undergoing operations not included under ERPs
- Participants unable to consent for the study
- Participants whose mental state excludes them from being able to understand contents of the informed consent form and/or patients whose family members or patient representative do not wish for them to participate in the study
Where it is running
- University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States (enrolling)
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