Multimedia Based Information to Parents in a Pediatric Acute Ward: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01659879
• Collaborator: St. Olavs Hospital (Other)
• Enrollment: 101
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 7
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 14.5

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Health Communication	Behavioral: Multimedia information; Behavioral: verbal information	N/A

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.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 101 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Official Title: Multimedia Based Information to Parents in a Pediatric Acute Ward: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Study Start Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Mar 1, 2011
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2011

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: multimedia information Health information concerning the child's diagnosis, treatment and recovery time after evaluation by the pediatrician, using a 15 minutes long standardized health information package with multimedia elements from the Norwegian website www.syktbarn.no (English version: www.childhealthguide.com)	Behavioral: Multimedia information
Active Comparator: verbal information Verbal health information by a nurse in the acute ward concerning the child's diagnosis, treatment and recovery time, after the evaluation by the pediatrician	Behavioral: verbal information

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. parental anxiety [at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.]

   evaluated with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (translated to Norwegian)

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. parental satisfaction with nursing care [at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.]

   evaluated with the Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CECSS)

2. Parental satisfaction with the health information given in the acute ward. [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.]

   Evaluated with a structured telephone interview 1-2 weeks after hospital discharge, performed by the main researcher.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Department of Pediatrics, St. Olav's University Hospital	Trondheim		Norway

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• St. Olavs Hospital

Investigators

• Study Director: Jon Skranes, MD, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Henrik Døllner, MD, PhD, St. Olavs Hospital

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Additional Information:

• an open online resource in Norwegian for parents of small children, containing videos, audio clips, animations, illustrations, pictures and text materials regarding children's illnesses and normal development
• an open online resource for parents of small children, containing videos, audio clips, animations, illustrations, pictures and text materials regarding children's illnesses and normal development

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01659879
• Other Study ID Numbers: LBK-2010/12-1
• First Posted: Aug 8, 2012
• Last Update Posted: Feb 14, 2017
• Last Verified: Feb 1, 2017

• Keywords provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Parents; Caregivers; Anxiety; Consumer satisfaction

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Feb 14, 2017