NCT04151056

Impact of the Social Determinants of Health in the Central Catalan Region

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The objective of this study is to increase the registry of social determinants of health in the primary care centers and evaluate the relationship that these social determinants of health with various variables of social impact.

Detailed description

Currently, the social problems are hidden behind clinical diagnostics. This may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of some discomforts/pathologies that are observed in primary care centers that may respond better to community level interventions and promotion of health actions. It is longitudinal , multicentered, pre and post intervention study, conducted by health professionals of central Catalonia sanitary region during 2019 Prior to the intervention, the number and type of social coded diagnoses in the clinical history is going to be described. Subsequently, an intervention will be carried out: training the professionals in the homogeneous codification of five selected social determinants. This codification will be systematically applied .The number and type of social diagnostics registered in the pre and post-intervention periods is going to be compared. Finally, the impact analysis of the social determinants is going to be carried out. Afterwards the investigators plan to search solutions at Community level for the select social diagnoses

Conditions

• Social Determinants of Health
• Primary Health Care

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-23
• Primary completion: 2021-05-23
• Completion: 2021-07-23
• First posted: 2019-11-05
• Last updated: 2020-06-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain