NCT04669080

Asthma Clinics Helping Expand Cost Conversations

Developing and Evaluating an Intervention to Enhance the Work of Asthma Specialty Care Teams in Helping Families in Cost Navigation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Asthma in Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Health care provider cost navigation training	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-04
• Primary completion: 2021-06-21
• Completion: 2021-07-20
• First posted: 2020-12-16
• Last updated: 2021-09-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States