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A randomised trial assessing the acceptability and effectiveness of providing generic versus tailored feedback about health risks for a high need primary care sample

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Title
A randomised trial assessing the acceptability and effectiveness of providing generic versus tailored feedback about health risks for a high need primary care sample
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BMC Primary Care, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12875-015-0309-7
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Natasha Noble, Christine Paul, Mariko Carey, Stephen Blunden, Nicole Turner

Abstract

Tailored feedback has been shown to be effective for modifying health risk behaviours and may aid the provision of preventive care by general practitioners (GPs). However, provision of tailored patient feedback for vulnerable or socially disadvantaged groups is not well explored. The aims of this study were to examine the acceptability and effectiveness of providing generic compared to tailored feedback on self-reported health risk behaviours among a high need sample of people attending an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS). Participants attending two ACCHSs in regional New South Wales completed a touch screen health risk survey and received either generic or tailored health risk feedback. Participants were asked to complete an exit survey after their appointment. The exit survey asked about feedback acceptability and effectiveness. Self-reported ease of understanding, relevance and whether the generic versus tailored feedback helped patients talk to their GP was compared using Chi-square analysis; The mean number of survey health risks talked about or for which additional actions were undertaken (such as provision of lifestyle advice or referral) was compared using t-tests. Eighty seven participants (36 % consent rate) completed the exit survey. Tailored feedback was rated as more relevant and was more likely to be shown to the participant's GP than generic feedback. There was no difference in the mean number of health risk topics discussed or number of additional actions taken by the GP by type of feedback. Tailored and generic feedback showed no difference in effectiveness, and little difference in acceptability, among this socially disadvantaged population. Completing a health risk survey and receiving any type of feedback may have overwhelmed more subtle differences in outcomes between the generic and the tailored feedback. Future work to rigorously evaluate the longer-term effectiveness of the provision of tailored health risk feedback for Aboriginal Australians, as well as other high need groups, is still needed. Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ANZCTRN12614001205628. Registered 11 November 2014.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 72 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 25 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 14%
Psychology 4 6%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 25 35%
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