Effective Communication to Improve Decision Making About Health Care Plans
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Brief summary
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The overall goal of the study is to better understand how communication strategies can help people make decisions about health insurance plans. This study aims to: * (Aim 1) Examine currently uninsured individuals' understanding of terminology and details of health insurance plans; * (Aim 2) Apply three recommended strategies for communicating information about health insurance plans; * (Aim 3) Test the effects of these strategies in a randomized experiment.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01986790
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 343 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Plain Language Behavioral
- Plain Language + Visuals Behavioral
- Plain Language + Narratives Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 64 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 31, 2012
- Primary completion
- Feb 28, 2014
- Completion
- May 31, 2014
- Last update posted
- Jun 8, 2016
2012 – 2014
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine | St Louis | Missouri | 63110 | — |
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- Last update posted Jun 8, 2016 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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