Impact of Four Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) on Patient Behaviour

University Hospital, Grenoble400 enrolled

Overview

To assess the impact of four Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) on patient behaviour in primary care.

A patient who visited, for a gastroenteritis or a pharyngitis, one GP of the intervention group, received a Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) related to his disease and his age: either the gastroenteritis leaflet for adult or the one for child, either the pharyngitis leaflet for adult or the one for child.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

400

Conditions

Gastroenteritis Pharyngitis

Interventions

Patient Information LeafletsPROCEDURE

Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) about adult gastroenteritis, children gastroenteritis, adult pharyngitis or either children pharyngitis in consultation room

usual consultationPROCEDURE

No particular intervention during consultation for the Patient. No Information Leaflets (PIL) is given

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patient. * Minor child accompanied by a responsible adult. * The patient or the caregiver must be reachable by telephone within ten to fifteen days following the consultation. Exclusion Criteria: * Illiterate patient * Patient refusing follow-up call. * Patient with visual or hearing impairment. * Patient non-Francophone. * Private patient of liberty by judicial or administrative. * Person being a measure of legal protection.

Locations (23)

General practitioner office

Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France

General practitioner office

Chambéry, France

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The primary outcome measure was the mean behaviour score

All patients were called, ten to fifteen days after the visit, to answer a questionnaire on their behaviour related to the disease since they visited the GP. It permitted to calculate a behaviour score. Better was the score, better was the patient's behaviour related to his disease.

Time frame: In ten to fifteen days after patient after the visit

Secondary Outcomes

the mean comprehension score

All patients (or their parent) were called, ten to fifteen days after the visit, to answer a questionnaire on their comprehension related to the disease since they visited the GP. It permitted to calculate a comprehension score. Better was this score, better was the patient's comprehension.

Time frame: in ten to fifteen days after the visit

number of visit of patient's family for the same pathology

we get the information by a phone call to the patient, in ten to fifteen days after the visit

Time frame: in ten to fifteen days after the visit

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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