NCT05117333

Reminders, Cost Sharing, and Healthcare Use

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47,398 (actual)
• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial in Finland by sending three types of information letters to households to examine whether the reminder letters affect healthcare use. All letters remind of the importance of seeking care to treat potential health problems. This study has two primary objectives are: to evaluate the effects of an information nudge reminding on the importance of diagnosing and treating health problems and to evaluate the effects of additionally providing information on the fact that primary care nurse visits have become exempt from copayments. Main outcomes include the number of primary care nurse visits and general practitioner (GP) visits in a six-month follow-up.

Detailed description

This study has two main objectives: (i) to evaluate the effect of an information nudge reminding on the importance of diagnosing and treating health problems and (ii) to evaluate the effect of providing information on the fact that primary care nurse visits have become exempt from co-payments.

Conditions

• Health Care Utilization
• Health Care Seeking Behavior
• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Reminder (information letter)	Reminders

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-01
• Primary completion: 2022-04-01
• Completion: 2022-04-01
• First posted: 2021-11-11
• Last updated: 2022-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland