Clinical trial NCT00955656: Delta Primary Care Provider (PCP) Survey on Asthma Management
Official title: Delta Primary Care Provider (PCP) Survey on Asthma Management
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Asthma
Keywords: Characteristics of medical practices
Practitioners providing care to children with asthma
Medically underserved and impoverished Arkansas Delta region
Characteristics of medical practices and practitioners
Disadvantaged populations
Lead sponsor: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2009-08-10
Enrollment: 6
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Individuals who receive the survey will be the primary care provider identified by study participants enrolled in our ongoing study entitled, "Asthma in the Delta Region of Arkansas: Characterization of Disease and Impact of Environmental Factors" (ARIA#53054).

Brief summary: The proposed study will utilize a survey format to examine the attitudes, perceptions, and practices of primary care providers in the Delta region of Arkansas.

Detailed description: Study Design. Primary care providers will be sent a providers packet to include a cover letter explaining the survey and its purpose as well as a 2-part questionnaire that includes nine selected short patient vignettes and a questionnaire regarding their personal and practice characteristics.

Study Population. Individuals who receive the survey will be the primary care provider identified by study participants enrolled in our ongoing study entitled, "Asthma in the Delta Region of Arkansas: Characterization of Disease and Impact of Environmental Factors" (ARIA#53054). We will send the survey to all identified practitioners in Lee, Phillips, Desha, Chicot, St. Francis, and surrounding counties. Future studies will include primary care providers from other Arkansas Delta counties pending funding.

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria. We will send the survey to all identified practitioners in Lee, Phillips, Desha, Chicot, St. Francis, and surrounding counties. Future studies will include primary care providers from other Arkansas Delta counties pending funding.

Instruments. Delta Primary Care Provider Survey. The self administered survey examines the attitudes, perceptions and practices of primary care providers. The 2-part questionnaire includes nine selected short patient vignettes and a questionnaire regarding the providers personal and practice characteristics.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* We will send the survey to all identified practitioners in Lee, Phillips, Desha, Chicot, St. Francis, and surrounding counties.
* Future studies will include primary care providers from other Arkansas Delta counties pending funding.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None.

Primary outcomes:
measure: The proposed study will utilize a survey format to examine the attitudes, perceptions, and practices of primary care providers in the Delta region of Arkansas.
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Little Rock
country: United States
facility: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
state: Arkansas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Arkansas
name: Tamara T. Perry, M.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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