Status:
COMPLETED
Discussing Costs in the Doctor-Patient Encounter
Lead Sponsor:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Conditions:
Chronic Illness
Financial Burden
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
Background: \- The costs of medical care have a major effect on patients during illness and treatment. Surveys with patients and doctors show that both are interested in discussing the costs of treat...
Detailed Description
BACKGROUND: The cost of illness and medical care has profound implications for society as a whole and for individual patients as they experience being sick and seeking treatment. It is both appropria...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
- RAND Corp Survey Research Group will be in charge of recruiting participants. They will work with an experienced focus group recruitment vendor to identify, screen and schedule eligible participants from the LA/Santa Monica area and the Washington DC area. Candidates for the focus groups must be individuals who are 18 years old or older, able to provide informed consent, and who speak English or Spanish well enough to participate in one of the focus groups. In addition, participants must have health insurance coverage at the time of recruitment. The focus groups will include a mix of participants in terms of gender, age, race/ethnicity, educational level, SES, and health insurance coverage type. While we will not be excluding HHS or other federal employees from participating (as we see no compelling reason to do so), we will not be recruiting predominantly HHS or other federal employees because we seek a generalizable sample.
- Participants will be either English or Spanish speaking adults. Focus groups will include participants with the following varied characteristics:
- age (working adults with and without dependents and retirees); ethnic/racial groups (African American, Latino, Non-Hispanic whites);
- varied economic status (incomes below 300% of the Federal poverty threshold, and above).
- Specifically, participants will be recruited to ensure sufficient socio-demographic representation and adequate numbers to test our study hypotheses. Because we will recruit subjects with the intention of producing generalizable results, we will not recruit disproportionate numbers of HHS or other federal employees (although these individuals will not be excluded from participation).
- After the two pilot groups, twenty focus groups each including 8-12 participants will be conducted for a maximum total of 264 participants. Of the twenty focus groups, sixteen will be conducted in English and 4 will be conducted in Spanish.
- Half of participants will have incomes under 300% of the federal poverty threshold in order to guarantee ascertainment of perspectives of participants of varied socio-economic status.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 16 2011
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 16 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
211 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01503853
Start Date
April 16 2011
End Date
September 16 2016
Last Update
April 5 2018
Active Locations (1)
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RAND
Santa Monica, California, United States, 90401