Plain English Summary
Not provided at time of registration
Trial website
Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Anne Rogers
ORCID ID
Contact details
National Primary Care Research & Development Centre (NPCRDC)
5th Floor
Williamson Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)161 275 7601
anne.rogers@man.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Evaluating the Expert Patients Programme - process of implementation and outcomes
Acronym
REPORT - Research into Expert Patients Outcomes in a Randomised Trial
Study hypothesis
The RCT is designed to test the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the EPP in the management of chronic conditions in England. A two-arm, patient level, randomised controlled trial: The intervention is the Expert Patient Programme, group-based chronic disease management programme, and the comparator is a 6-month waiting list control group. Patient population is adults with chronic disease, to be recruited from all 27 EPP Zones in the UK. Outcomes: include self-efficacy, health status, quality of life, and health service utilisation
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Chronic condition as defined by the patient
Intervention
Randomisation at patient level to either Group 1 who will participate in the Expert Patients Programme (EPP) immediately or Group 2 the waiting list controls who will participate in the EPP six months after recruitment
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Self-efficacy, health status, quality of life, and health service utilisation
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/04/2003
Overall trial end date
28/02/2006
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
All individuals who are referred or self-refer to the Expert Patients Programme
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
600
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/04/2003
Recruitment end date
28/02/2006
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
National Primary Care Research & Development Centre (NPCRDC)
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
UK Department of Health
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
2007 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17325405