The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of strategies to develop and foster the relationship between primary care practices and community resources to address specific unhealthy behaviors (tobacco use, poor nutrition, and lack of physical activity).
Tobacco use, poor diet, and lack of physical activity are associated with the leading causes of significant morbidity and mortality, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory dysfunction. One solution to decreasing unhealthy behaviors would be to better integrate primary care providers with community resources, including community and public health organizations that already have the capacity and expertise to deliver effective interventions. This project is a randomized trial to evaluate different practice-level interventions to link practices to community resources to decrease unhealthy behaviors.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
9
Quality improvement activities, including monthly teleconferences and chart audit with feedback, to help practices refer to community resources
Provision of tools to help with referrals to community resources
No intervention
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina, United States
The number of referrals from the practices to the community resources
Time frame: 6 months
Number of referrals received by each resource
Time frame: 6 months
The proportion of patients with unhealthy behaviors who were referred from the practices to community resources
Time frame: 6 months
Practice attitudes and practice regarding referral to community resources
Time frame: 6 months
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