NCT05116163Completed
Breaking Implicit Bias Habits: An Individuation Pilot Study In Rheumatology
Breaking Implicit Bias Habits: An Individuation Pilot to Promote Equity in Rheumatic Disease Care
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The first aim of this study is to test the efficacy of a real-time provider-based individuation intervention to improve the receipt of high-quality rheumatic disease care among Black/African American and lower socioeconomic status (SES) individuals. The second aim is to determine the effect of the individuation intervention on provider-patient communication, adherence, provider trust and care satisfaction.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 201 (actual)
- First submitted
- 13 Oct 2021
- Start date
- 17 Jun 2022
- Primary completion date
- 27 Sept 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Diseases
- Lupus (SLE), Rheumatoid arthritis
- NCT number
- NCT05116163
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 201
- From 17 Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, 27 Sept 2024
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other
- Providers: Drs. Feldman and Schoenfeld (and their respective patients) will be excluded from this study.
- Patients: The providers will exclude patients who incarcerated or unable to consent. The providers will exclude any patient from our searches who has opted out of research.
Who the study is looking for
- Providers: Providers will be male or female adult rheumatologists with \>=1 clinical sessions/week at BWH/FH or MGH main campus and satellite clinic sites. The providers will aim to include a range of provider ages and years in practice.
- Patients: The study team will include male and female patients of the participating providers who are able to provide consent, English-speaking, \>=18 years old, Black or African American or insured by Medicaid/Mass Health (as a proxy for low socioeconomic status), have a diagnosis of SLE, osteoarthritis, or inflammatory arthritis which includes RA (or referred to rheumatology because of high suspicion for these conditions), and have been seen \<2 times in the past year by the provider.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
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