Short-Term VA Health Care Expenditures Following a Health Risk Assessment and Coaching Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Short-term health care costs following completion of health risk assessments and coaching programs in the VA have not been assessed.

Objective

To compare VA health care expenditures among veterans who participated in a behavioral intervention trial that randomized patients to complete a HRA followed by health coaching (HRA + coaching) or to complete the HRA without coaching (HRA-alone).

Design

Four-hundred seventeen veterans at three Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers or Clinics were randomized to HRA + coaching or HRA-alone. Veterans randomized to HRA-alone (n = 209) were encouraged to discuss HRA results with their primary care team, while veterans randomized to HRA + coaching (n = 208) received two brief telephone-delivered health coaching calls.

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SUBMITTER: Sloan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7210324 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature