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Effective Communication to Improve Decision Making About Health Care Plans

NCT01986790 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 343

Last updated 2016-06-09

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Summary

The overall goal of the study is to better understand how communication strategies can help people make decisions about health insurance plans.

This study aims to:

* (Aim 1) Examine currently uninsured individuals' understanding of terminology and details of health insurance plans;
* (Aim 2) Apply three recommended strategies for communicating information about health insurance plans;
* (Aim 3) Test the effects of these strategies in a randomized experiment.

Conditions

  • Health Literacy
  • Health Insurance
  • Health Services Accessibility

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Plain Language

BEHAVIORAL

Plain Language + Visuals

BEHAVIORAL

Plain Language + Narratives

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mary Politi, PhD · The Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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