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A Pilot Study of the Impact of the Patient Activated Learning System (PALS) on Knowledge Acquisition, Recall, and Decision Making

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03156634

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Official title

The Impact of the Patient Activated Learning System (PALS) on Knowledge Acquisition, Recall, and Decision Making About Antihypertensive Medication: A Pilot Study

Brief summary

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This is a randomized pilot study comparing the impact of the Patient Activated Learning System (PALS) on knowledge acquisition, recall, and decision making about antihypertensive medication compared to an established online health information system (WebMD). We will also compare the two systems with regard to user experience measures such as understandability and trust.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03156634
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
118 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
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
Apr 15, 2017 (Actual)
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2017 (Actual)
Completion
Dec 31, 2017 (Actual)
Last update posted
Apr 23, 2019

2017

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates New York New York 10021 —

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