Clinical trial NCT06988163: Osteoarthritis Care Tools for Primary Care Providers
Official title: OACareTools Primary Care-Led Usability & Scalability Pilot Study (OACareTools PLUS)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Arthritis
Osteo Arthritis Knee
Keywords: healthcare providers
arthritis
primary care
Lead sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
First posted: 2025-05-23
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of this pilot study is to test OACareTools+, an intervention for healthcare providers that combines education, patient resources and support from a national organization, to help them make referrals of patients with arthritis to the Walk With Ease program. This intervention was designed to increase referrals of patients with arthritis to the Walk With Ease program.

Detailed description: Participants will be clinicians (n= 50) in a primary care practice and a subset of patients (n=10). The study team will deliver education and resources to providers in a training session about Walk With Ease. After the provider training, providers will use the study resources to refer patients with arthritis to Walk With Ease. Healthcare provider participants will complete surveys after their first referral and at the end of the study (12-months). Patient participants who are referred to Walk With Ease through the OACareTools+ intervention will participate in interviews about their experience (6-weeks) with the referral process. Primary endpoints of the study will be 1) number of healthcare providers that referred patients to Walk With Ease 2) number of Walk With Ease patient participants 3) healthcare provider acceptability and feasibility 4) patient acceptability of the intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthcare provider participants: currently a healthcare provider or staff person in the UNC pilot clinic
* Patient participants: 18 years or older; received a referral to Walk With Ease from a provider at the UNC pilot clinic; agreed to participate in the phone interview on the post-Walk With Ease evaluation form

Exclusion Criteria:

* Both: non-English speaking

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of healthcare providers who referred patients
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Number of patients who registered for Walk With Ease
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Healthcare provider acceptability
timeFrame: Measure collected up to 2 months after provider's first referral
measure: Healthcare provider feasibility
timeFrame: Measure collected up to 2 months after provider's first referral
measure: Patient acceptability
timeFrame: 6-weeks post- Walk With Ease registration
measure: Patient usefulness: educational resources
timeFrame: 6-weeks post- Walk With Ease registration
measure: Patient usefulness: clinician referral to Walk With Ease
timeFrame: 6-weeks post- Walk With Ease registration
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chapel Hill
country: United States
facility: UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center
state: North Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center
name: Leigh Callahan, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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