A multilingual mass communication intervention for seniors and people with disabilities on Medicaid: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the following: (1) baseline knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions about Medicaid managed care (MMC) among seniors and people with disabilities (SPD) receiving Medicaid benefits; (2) SPD Medicaid beneficiaries' use of and satisfaction with a user-designed MMC guidebook; and (3) guidebook effects on changes in MMC knowledge, attitudes, and intended behaviors of SPD beneficiaries.

Data sources/study setting

Survey data collected between February and May 2008 from a random sample of SPD receiving Medicaid benefits in three California counties.

Study design

This randomized controlled trial of 319 intervention and 373 control SPD Medicaid beneficiaries used pre- and postintervention telephone surveys to compare changes in MMC knowledge, atti

SUBMITTER: Kurtovich E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2838152 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature