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Adapting Enhanced Recovery Programs for Low Health Literacy Patients

University of Alabama at Birmingham · with National Cancer Institute (NCI) · NCT06356558

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
1050
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
June 15, 2026
Record last updated
June 29, 2026

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What the study is about

Low health literacy patients are a vulnerable population at high-risk for surgical disparities including longer hospital stays, more complications, and more readmissions. This study will adapt enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) to low health literacy patients with a multilevel, health literacy-based implementation strategy (called VISACT - VISuAl aids, Coach providers in communication, and Train organizations in health literacy) to improve ERP fidelity and thereby outcomes. In the final aim of this project (Specific Aim 3), the VISACT intervention will be tested in a pilot trial. Findings from this study will lay the foundation for a multi-institutional stepped-wedge trial and establish key principles for adapting interventions to eliminate disparities.

Being studied: Educational intervention (VISACT)

Conditions: Surgery; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Colorectal Disorders

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Adult patients >= 18 years of age undergoing surgery under an enhanced recovery program (ERPs)
  • Adult caregivers/providers, organizational leaders, >= 18 years of age with direct or indirect involvement with ERP implementation
  • All genders
  • All race/ethnicities
  • Able to consent
  • English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria

  • Child (\<18 years of age)
  • Patients undergoing operations not included under ERPs
  • Participants unable to consent for the study
  • Participants whose mental state excludes them from being able to understand contents of the informed consent form and/or patients whose family members or patient representative do not wish for them to participate in the study

Recruiting US locations

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Birmingham, AL 35233

    Site contact: Daniel I Chu, MD · 205-975-1932 · dchu@uab.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Daniel I Chu, MD · 205-975-1932 · dchu@uab.edu
  • Kaycee Hair · 205-975-1932 · khair@uabmc.edu
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