Optimising General Practice Long COVID Care - an Educational Intervention.

Sponsor
University College Dublin
Study ID
NCT06765421
Status
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Conditions

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Intervention Group — BEHAVIORAL
    Intervention group activity involves three components: 1. Intervention group GPs will be provided with a long COVID 'toolkit'. The toolkit will be prepared by the study team in collaboration with expert clinicians and public and patient representatives as a resource for GPs to use in patient care. 2. GPs will attend an expert clinician / patient led long COVID educational session grounded in the findings of the toolkit. 3. Applying learnings to date, each GP will conduct case reviews of eight patients with long COVID attending their practice and provide patient care as appropriate.

Study Details

This trial will evaluate the feasibility of a pilot educational intervention for GPs that aims to enhance care and care outcomes among patients with long COVID at six general practices in the Ireland East region. Our first objective is to conduct focus groups with key stakeholders (GPs, other health professionals, patients, families/carers) that will inform the contents of an education intervention. The second objective will be to implement this educational intervention, and the third objective will be to determine whether the intervention is feasible. Study outcomes will include: * Qualitative findings from co-design focus groups and post-intervention semi-structured interviews with GPs. * Practice and patient study recruitment and retention data. * GP / Practice characteristics: age \& gender, practice location, general and COVID-19 patient population figures. * Patient characteristics: Patient age, gender, COVID-19 vaccination status, and medical history details. * Patient scores on a self-report measure assessing the symptoms, symptom severity, functional impact, and overall health (COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale (C-19-YRS)).

Key Dates

First listed
Jan 9, 2025
Start date
Mar 31, 2025
Status verified
Dec 2024
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2025
Completion
Apr 30, 2025

Study Design

Enrollment
72 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

  • Experimental: Intervention group
    GP practices in the intervention group will be provided with a 'long COVID Toolkit for GPs', they will be invited to attend an long COVID educational webinar, and they will be asked to perform a detailed case review of patients enrolled in the study.
  • No Intervention: Control group
    Control group GPs will be asked to deliver care as usual for patients enrolled in the study.

Primary Outcome Measure

Qualitative data from focus groups and post-intervention interviews [ Time Frame: Focus groups (4 weeks), post intervention interviews (4 weeks). ]

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