NCT03387735

Multiple Chronic Conditions for Older Adults

Heart-Related Multiple Chronic Conditions in Primary Care: Behavioral Technology

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 346 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Multiple chronic conditions are common and expensive among patients aged ≥65 and are associated with lower quality of life, poorer response to treatment, worse medical and psychiatric outcomes, higher mortality, and higher costs of care. The primary purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized clinical trial (RCT) to examine the effects of ElderTree --a web-based intervention--on health outcomes and healthcare use among older adults with several chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, COPD, BMI over 30, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, arrhythmia/atrial fibrillation, chronic pain, arthritis. The investigator's hypothesis is that patients assigned to TAU+ElderTree will have better quality of life and fewer primary care visits than those assigned to TAU+Internet.

Conditions

• Chronic Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Treatment as usual (TAU) + Internet	Patients in this group will receive TAU+internet and links to helpful websites.
BEHAVIORAL	TAU + ElderTree	For the patient, ElderTree provides tools, motivation, and social support to help them manage their specific set of chronic conditions and communicate with peers and their primary care physician. For the clinic, ElderTree has a Clinician Report (CR), a visual dashboard of health-tracking data that can be customized based on the needs of the clinic. The CR provides alerts to the clinician when a patient passes a certain threshold. The dashboard is intended to help clinicians prepare for patient office visits.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-29
• Completion: 2021-06-29
• First posted: 2018-01-02
• Last updated: 2022-09-01
• Results posted: 2022-09-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States