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Study NCT ID:
NCT00519311
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2017-01-13
First Post:
2007-08-21
Brief Title:
Health Intervention for Adolescents With Intellectual Disability
Sponsor:
The University of Queensland
Organization:
The University of Queensland
Study Overview
Official Title:
RCT of an Intervention to Improve the Health of Adolescents With Intellectual Disability
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2015-05
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
Ask
Brief Summary:
People with intellectual disability die five to twenty years earlier than the general population They also experience high levels of unrecognised disease and receive inadequate levels of health promotion or screening Although they comprise 27 of our population 502 000 Australians they receive scant if any attention in the health literature
The barriers to good health for this population include communication difficulties impaired recall of significant health information and inadequate training of health service providers This project attempts to minimise some of these barriers through the use of a Health Intervention Package Use of this package has been evaluated in adults but not in adolescents with intellectual disability
The Health Intervention Package includes a comprehensive health review called the Comprehensive Health Assessment Program CHAP which is performed by the adolescents general practitioner and a diary the Ask diary used to collect and store health information and to enhance health advocacy skills We specifically aim to test if adolescents with intellectual disability using this package will receive better health screening and prevention our primary outcomes We also aim to test if using the package results in improved health advocacy by adolescents with intellectual disability and their parents our secondary outcomes The tool should also be acceptable to those involved another secondary outcome To investigate these aims we propose a clustered randomised controlled trial a methodology we have used successfully in two previous trials We will recruit 1000 adolescents and their carers and teachers in Special Education Schools and Special Education Units in Queensland
The CHAP health review aims to produce shorter-term benefits of improved health screeningpromotion and disease detection such as increased sensory testing identification of vision or hearing impairment and improved immunisation rates The Ask diary is intended to produce longer-term benefits such as improved communication about health matters improved health advocacy skills improved health record keeping and increased health maintenance
The barriers to good health for this population include communication difficulties impaired recall of significant health information and inadequate training of health service providers This project attempts to minimise some of these barriers through the use of a Health Intervention Package Use of this package has been evaluated in adults but not in adolescents with intellectual disability
The Health Intervention Package includes a comprehensive health review called the Comprehensive Health Assessment Program CHAP which is performed by the adolescents general practitioner and a diary the Ask diary used to collect and store health information and to enhance health advocacy skills We specifically aim to test if adolescents with intellectual disability using this package will receive better health screening and prevention our primary outcomes We also aim to test if using the package results in improved health advocacy by adolescents with intellectual disability and their parents our secondary outcomes The tool should also be acceptable to those involved another secondary outcome To investigate these aims we propose a clustered randomised controlled trial a methodology we have used successfully in two previous trials We will recruit 1000 adolescents and their carers and teachers in Special Education Schools and Special Education Units in Queensland
The CHAP health review aims to produce shorter-term benefits of improved health screeningpromotion and disease detection such as increased sensory testing identification of vision or hearing impairment and improved immunisation rates The Ask diary is intended to produce longer-term benefits such as improved communication about health matters improved health advocacy skills improved health record keeping and increased health maintenance
Detailed Description:
The intervention group of school adolescents will receive the Health Intervention Package consisting of an Ask diary and a CHAP health review During the first two terms of school the adolescents will receive their own Ask diary and will be trained in the use of the diary by their teacher At the end of term two the carers and adolescents will be asked to complete part one of the CHAP tool which comprises a health history and make an appointed with their GP to complete a health assessment After this assessment both the adolescent and the parent will use the Ask diary for all ongoing healthcare matters The control group will receive their customary educational and medical care
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
None
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None