Provider Skill Building for Engagement and Communication in Healthcare - Hypertension Management

Conditions

• Patient-centered Care

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• REACH - Hypertension — OTHER
  The intervention is a skills training program for doctors that includes 3 self-paced on-line learning modules and 3 coaching sessions (one in-person and 2 virtual).

Study Details

Brief Summary: The study has three main goals: The first goal is to make a skills training program that improves how doctors talk with, listen to, and work with patients. The second goal is to make sure the process of collecting data and completing the program can be done. The third goal is to make sure the skills training program is feasible and acceptable for doctors. Study Activities: * Doctors will first complete a questionnaire and have their patients' appointments audio-recorded. * Then they will go through the training program. * After finishing the program, doctors will have more patient appointments audio-recorded. * Then the doctors will complete questionnaires again and have an interview with the study team.

Key Dates

Start date

Sep 2, 2025

Status verified

Aug 2025

Primary completion

May 31, 2026

Completion

May 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

180 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

OTHER

Arms

• Experimental: Clinicians
  Doctors will complete the program over 5-6 weeks, requiring a total of 3 hours.
• No Intervention: Patients
  Enrolled patients will be asked to audio-record their clinical encounter with their enrolled primary care provider and complete two surveys. No intervention will be administered to the enrolled patients.
• No Intervention: EHR (Electronic Health Record) Cohort
  EHR data will be collected on all patients of enrolled doctors. These patients will not consent, and no Intervention will be administered

Primary Outcome Measure

Feasibility of the intervention as measured by Clinician enrollment [ Time Frame: Baseline (pre-intervention), within 6 weeks post-intervention, and 12-16 weeks post-intervention ]

Locations (1)

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