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

Norwegian University of Science and Technology101 enrolled

Overview

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.

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 Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

101

Conditions

Health Communication

Interventions

Multimedia informationBEHAVIORAL

verbal informationBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 10 YearsMax age: 105 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Department of Pediatrics, St. Olav's University Hospital

Trondheim, Norway

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

parental anxiety

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

Time frame: at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.

Secondary Outcomes

parental satisfaction with nursing care

evaluated with the Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CECSS)

Time frame: at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.

Parental satisfaction with the health information given in the acute ward.

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

Time frame: 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.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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