Clinical trial NCT01143701: Evaluation of an Intervention for Improving Community-based Pediatric Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Care
Official title: Evaluation of an Intervention for Improving Community-based Pediatric ADHD Care
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: ADHD
Lead sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Nationwide Children's Hospital
name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
First posted: 2010-06-14
Enrollment: 577
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 11
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: ADHD is the most prevalent mental health disorder of childhood. The majority of children with ADHD receive their care in primary care settings. While the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for pediatricians, most pediatricians have difficulty adhering to these guidelines. Given observed deficiencies in evidence-based ADHD care and the likely effects on child outcomes, the development and testing of interventions aimed at improving ADHD care in primary care settings is necessary. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has developed a model intervention, termed the ADHD Collaborative, to comprehensively address this issue. The ADHD Collaborative intervention model includes academic detailing, quality improvement methods, and innovative tools (e.g., web portal) designed to promote and support the systematic use of the AAP guidelines. This intervention model has been used to train over 200 physicians at 55 practices in the Greater Cincinnati area. The intervention appears to produce 2- to 4-fold increases in the use of evidence-based ADHD-related practice behaviors in participating physicians. To date, the intervention has been implemented as a quality improvement project with few experimental controls. The primary goal of the proposed study is to conduct an experimentally-controlled cluster randomized trial of the ADHD Collaborative intervention. Thirty-two pediatric practices will be randomly assigned to receive the ADHD Collaborative intervention or to provide usual care. Approximately 96 physicians and 576 of their ADHD patients will be included in the study. Chart reviews, parental interviews, and parent and teacher rating scales will be collected. Between- and within-group hierarchical linear modeling analyses will examine whether the intervention produces significant improvements in pediatrician practice behaviors, patient satisfaction with ADHD care, and child outcomes over and above typical ADHD care. Also, the relative cost effectiveness of the ADHD Collaborative intervention over typical care will be established by computing incremental cost-effectiveness ratios using cost and effect size estimates.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Practice must have a minimum of two pediatricians who agree to participate.
* Practice must have an electronic billing system.
* Practice must have internet access at office.
* Practice must not have an on-site mental health professional.
* Practice must have a member of practice staff willing to be trained in human subjects certification and willing to consent families.
* Children must be in Grade 1-5.
* Children must be newly diagnosed with ADHD.

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: Parent-rated ADHD Symptoms
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Teacher-rated ADHD Symptoms
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: Nationwide Childrens Hospital
state: Ohio
Study officials:
References:
citation: Gordon MK, Baum RA, Gardner W, Kelleher KJ, Langberg JM, Brinkman WB, Epstein JN. Comparison of Performance on ADHD Quality of Care Indicators: Practitioner Self-Report Versus Chart Review. J Atten Disord. 2020 Aug;24(10):1457-1461. doi: 10.1177/1087054715624227. Epub 2016 Jan 28.
citation: Brinkman WB, Baum R, Kelleher KJ, Peugh J, Gardner W, Lichtenstein P, Langberg J, Epstein JN. Relationship Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Care and Medication Continuity. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016 Apr;55(4):289-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.02.001. Epub 2016 Feb 5.
citation: Epstein JN, Kelleher KJ, Baum R, Brinkman WB, Peugh J, Gardner W, Lichtenstein P, Langberg J. Variability in ADHD care in community-based pediatrics. Pediatrics. 2014 Dec;134(6):1136-43. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-1500. Epub 2014 Nov 3.
citation: Epstein JN, Langberg JM, Lichtenstein PK, Kolb R, Simon JO. The myADHDportal.com Improvement Program: An innovative quality improvement intervention for improving the quality of ADHD care among community-based pediatricians. Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2013 Mar 1;1(1):55-67. doi: 10.1037/cpp0000004.
citation: Epstein JN, Kelleher KJ, Baum R, Brinkman WB, Peugh J, Gardner W, Lichtenstein P, Langberg JM. Impact of a Web-Portal Intervention on Community ADHD Care and Outcomes. Pediatrics. 2016 Aug;138(2):e20154240. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-4240.