Healthcare costs are a critical barrier to U.S. families' ability to access the preventive care needed to manage their children's asthma. Asthma specialty care teams are uniquely positioned to help families navigate these cost barriers, but lack structured approaches to discussing this sensitive and complex topic. This study will train asthma specialty care teams to identify families at risk for financial burden and engage in conversations about strategies to manage asthma care costs. The study team will evaluate the impact of a health care provider training on the frequency of cost navigation conversations. The investigators hypothesize that the health care provider training will increase the frequency of parent-reported cost conversations in the clinic.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
65
Health care providers and asthma educators in a pediatric asthma clinic will receive an online training about the importance of cost of care conversations, how to start cost of care conversations with families, how to refer families to cost navigation resources, and how to lead asthma specialty care teams in cost navigation.
North Carolina Children's Allergy and Asthma Center
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Change in Frequency of Cost Conversations Occurring during Asthma Specialty Care Visits
Change in the frequency of caregivers reporting cost of care conversations with the asthma specialty care team during routine asthma care visits
Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks post intervention completion
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