Clinical trial NCT02214056: Mobile Unit Screening of Pathologies Associated With Chronic Diseases - Feasibility
Official title: Mobile Unit Screening of Pathologies Associated With Chronic Diseases - Part I Feasibility
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Type II Diabetes
Atherosclerosis
Keywords: mobile screening team
feasibility
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-08-12
Enrollment: 27
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study population consists of patients at least 50 years of age with a chronic disease (COPD, Type II diabetes, atherosclerosis) recruited by one of the GP investigators.

Brief summary: The main objective of this study is to assess the feasibility of standardized screening for comorbidities among patients with one or more of three chronic diseases (diabetes, COPD, atherosclerosis) by a mobile unit at times and localities under-served by health actors.

Detailed description: The investigators secondary objectives include assessing patient and GP satisfaction in relation to the mobile screening team.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent
* The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
* The patient has one or more of the following three diseases: (1) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); (2) type II diabetes; (3) atherosclerosis.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The patient is participating in another study
* The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study
* The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship
* The patient refuses to sign the consent
* It is impossible to correctly inform the patient
* There is a need to take urgent therapeutic care in the opinion of the general practitioner
* The patient has received within the past year, a full examination including Doppler assessment of supra-aortic arteries, abdominal aorta and lower limbs; the patient has received a measure of the ankle-brachial index at the toe.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of eligible patients who actually received the mobile team exam
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Observance: percentage of patients included that actually received the balance sheet
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: Time in days between making the appointment by the general practitioner and the mobile team exam
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: Average per patient time necessary to carry out the mobile team exam
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: Average time required for the patient to fill out questionnaires
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: Percentage of complete mobile team exams, that is to say in which all the data and all the variables have been collected and interpreted
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: Percentage of GPs who participated in the study
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: Percentage of mobile team exams in which one or more comorbidities was discovered
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
measure: GP and patient acceptability of the mobile team exam
timeFrame: Day of mobile team exam (day 0)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Besseges
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 47 rue de la République
city: Besseges
country: France
facility: Centre de Santé Médical
city: Ganges
country: France
facility: Centre médical des Olivettes
city: La Grand Combe
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 5 rue Abbé Masson
city: Lasalle
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 154 Place de la Poste
city: Lasalle
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - Les Glycines
city: Molières-sur-Cèze
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - Pont de Grammal
city: Nîmes
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 9 rue Racine
city: Quissac
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 15 rue du Lac
city: Sauve
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 7 bis avenue Rhin Danube
city: St Ambroix
country: France
facility: Cabinet Médical - 36 place de l'Esplanade
city: St Florent sur Auzonnet
country: France
facility: Centre Médical La Cantonnade
city: St Jean du Gard
country: France
facility: Cabinét Médical - 9 rue Villeneuve
Study officials:
affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes
name: David Costa, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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