An interventional study of Online questionnaire in Health Care Utilization, sponsored by Université Catholique de Louvain. Completed at 1 site in Belgium. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-06-24.
Sponsored by Université Catholique de Louvain · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
The project US3R is a general population survey that will measure the magnitude of utilised, postponed and foregone medical care in relation with other health care needs than coronavirus symptoms during the confinement period in Belgium. The study aims to describe the magnitude of unsatisfied health care needs for various types of care. It will also identify the reasons for these postponed and foregone care according to gender, health and socioeconomic status.
Context:
Belgium has put in place confinement measures on March 13th 2020 with the aim to reduce contagion related to Covid19 in the population and manage the number of patients to be treated in the hospital.
However, some weeks after those confinement measures, health care professionals are worry about other patients than Covid19 since they have observed a significantly lower use of emergency services, cancellations of screening appointments, interrupted health care in patients with chronic conditions, disabilities, or mental health disorders.
Objectives: to collect data on used, postponed and foregone medical care related to other health care needs than Covid19 during the confinement period in Belgium; to measure the magnitude of unsatisfied health care needs for various types of care; to identify the reasons explained postponed and foregone care
Methods : the survey is made of about 50 questions collecting self-reported data on health care use and non-use for various types of care along with demographics, socioeconomics and health status characteristics during the confinement period . Data will be analysed with Stata 15 using statistical tests and regression models.
Participants are collected via social media platforms and institutionnal mailing, and Belgian newspapers.
7,640 studies on the registry are indexed under COVID-19; 488 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 3,164 is above the median of 100 across 4,099 interventional studies indexed under COVID-19.
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Exclusion Criteria:
There is only one arm wishing to participate
Other: Online questionnaire
this is an online questionnaire collecting retrospective data on health care use and non-use
Health care use
Number of person reporting that they used health care during confinement (yes/no)
Time frame: throughout the whole study, assessed up to 18 months
Postponed heath care use
Self-reported postponed health care use (yes/no)
Time frame: throughout the whole study, assessed up to 18 months
Foregone health care use
Self-reported foregone health care use (yes/no)
Time frame: throughout the whole study, assessed up to 18 months
Plan to share: No
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