Exploring Patient Engagement: A Qualitative Analysis of Low-Income Urban Participants in Asthma Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Uncontrolled asthma is a common highly morbid condition with worse outcomes in low-income and minority patients in part due to barriers accessing and engaging with health care. We developed a patient advocate to educate about and assist with navigating access to care and provider-patient communication. Participants completed an End of Study Questionnaire (ESQ) that was analyzed to assess experience and engagement with the protocol.

Objective

This study uses qualitative analysis to evaluate participant experience with the patient advocate and control group interventions.

Methods

The ESQ aimed to prompt an open-ended discussion of study experience. Questions were developed from patient focus groups about the patient advocate intervention (PAI), and were revis

SUBMITTER: Korwin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5681420 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov - Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature