Storytelling for Gout Care Improvement

Recruiting in Palo Alto (17 mi)

+3 other locations

Age: 18+

Sex: Any

Travel: May Be Covered

Time Reimbursement: Varies

Trial Phase: Academic

Waitlist Available

Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham

No Placebo Group

Trial Summary

What is the purpose of this trial?The prevalence of gout has been steadily increasing over several decades and is correlated with the rising burden of obesity, chronic cardiac and renal disease; all conditions overrepresented in the Southeastern U.S. - particularly in African Americans. Through a novel emergency department led intervention we aim to improve the care patients with gout receive, both during acute exacerbations and long-term. A secondary goal of the project is to concurrently enhance participation of minorities in biomedical research in the Deep South.

Eligibility Criteria

This trial is for adults over 18 with gout who have seen a specialist in the past 2 years and can understand English. It's not for those with less than 6 months to live, recent critical illness or surgery, other rheumatic diseases, or those who've used pegloticase.

Inclusion Criteria

Gout diagnosis meeting 2015 American College of Rheumatology and European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria,99,140

I have a rheumatic condition like rheumatoid arthritis.

I have seen a specialist for gout in the last 2 years.

+5 more

Participant Groups

The study tests a new way to improve care for gout patients in emergency departments using storytelling. It also aims to increase research participation among minorities in the Southeastern U.S., particularly African Americans.

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: InterventionExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Storytelling A health literacy-appropriate and culturally-adapted intervention delivered on a tablet computer containing "storytelling" to improve patient gout knowledge and approaches to prevent flares, destigmatize gout, and enhance readiness to adopt available long-term treatments for gout including medications, diet, and exercise, or ii) usual gout care (control state).

Group II: ControlActive Control1 Intervention

Usual Care