Use of a Patient Decision Aid for Gastrologic Endoscopy in a Pediatric Setting

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Parents need understandable information in order to make appropriate choices for their child's health care. This is especially true when making decisions about invasive medical procedures. Parents need to understand what will happen, the risks involved, how these risks will be managed and what other options they have before they can decide what is best for their child. The present proposal involves the creation of a novel patient decision aid about the gastro endoscopy procedure, called a scope. The purpose of the aid is to provide parents with information so they are able to discuss the options with their child's health care providers.

Detailed Description
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True informed consent depends on effective, bi-directional communication between parents and their child's healthcare providers. Many things affect the quality of the consenting process including the parents' level of health literacy, English proficiency and cultural perspectives. Our long-term goal is to develop a standardized consenting process that ultimately addresses the needs of the patient and the patient's family so that a truly informed decision can occur. The specific hypothesis is that incorporating the use of a multimedia patient decision aid to assist in the education of patients and their families about an invasive medical procedure (i.e. gastro-endoscopy) will improve knowledge and positively impact the ability of the parent to act on this knowledge when making decisions regarding their child's health care.

Official Title
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Creation and Pilot Evaluation of a Patient Decision Aid as an Adjunct to the Consenting Process for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in a Pediatric Setting

Conditions
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Endoscopy

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: patient decision aid for endoscopy


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: parents or LARs who are considering a gastro-endoscopy for their child Exclusion Criteria: child has previously undergone an endoscopy parent of child has undergone an endoscopy non-English speaking

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Other: patient decision aid<br> | Other: patient decision aid for endoscopy<br>* patient decision aid will be administered at the point of decision making<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Validated survey tools will be used to assess change in the consenting parent's knowledge, expectations of outcomes, clarity of values, decision and decision conflict. |  | immeadiately after completing patient decision aid | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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create a patient decision aid for endoscopy, evaluate efficacy of a patient decision aid for endoscopy