Clinical trial NCT01659879: Multimedia Based Information to Parents in a Pediatric Acute Ward: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Official title: Multimedia Based Information to Parents in a Pediatric Acute Ward: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Communication
Keywords: Parents
Caregivers
Anxiety
Consumer satisfaction
Lead sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: St. Olavs Hospital
First posted: 2012-08-08
Enrollment: 101
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 105
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to determine whether multimedia based health information presented in a pediatric acute ward to parents of children with breathing difficulties due to lower respiratory tract infections, is more effective than verbal information to reduce the parent's anxiety and to increase satisfaction with nursing care and health information.

Detailed description: The intervention website www.syktbarn.no is an open Norwegian online resource for parents of small children, and the site contains videos, audio clips, animations, illustrations, pictures and text materials regarding children's illnesses and normal development. In addition, the parents can use an interactive symptom checker that will help them to decide what to do and when to seek medical advice when their child is sick. The uniqueness of the website is the authentic video clips of sick children with common childhood symptoms like breathing difficulties, signs of dehydration, rash, cough and fever.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* parents of 0-15 years old children with breathing difficulties caused by LRTI (bronchiolitis, laryngitis or pneumonia) or asthma exacerbation
* ability to communicate and read Norwegian

Exclusion Criteria:

* parents of children with chronic diseases who have direct access to the acute ward, children with oxygen saturation less than 90 %, or other very sick children who need urgent treatment

Primary outcomes:
measure: parental anxiety
timeFrame: at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: parental satisfaction with nursing care
timeFrame: at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
measure: Parental satisfaction with the health information given in the acute ward.
timeFrame: 1-2 weeks after discharge from the hospital. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours, and an average stay in the children's department is 2 days.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Trondheim
country: Norway
facility: Department of Pediatrics, St. Olav's University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
name: Jon Skranes, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: St. Olavs Hospital
name: Henrik Døllner, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Botngard A, Skranes LP, Skranes J, Dollner H. Multimedia based health information to parents in a pediatric acute ward: a randomized controlled trial. Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Dec;93(3):389-93. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.04.017. Epub 2013 May 15.