Communication Barriers Clinical Trial
Official title:
Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study
50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included in this study. The prehospital emergency physician will start video-interpreting via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analysed.
| Status | Recruiting |
| Enrollment | 50 |
| Est. completion date | November 1, 2025 |
| Est. primary completion date | February 5, 2025 |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | |
| Gender | All |
| Age group | 18 Years and older |
| Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - adult patients, at least 18 years old - awake, responsive patients - language barrier (Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech) Exclusion Criteria: - unconscious patients - out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients - delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting - refusal of video-interpreting by the patient |
| Country | Name | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | Medical University of Vienna | Vienna |
| Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
|---|---|
| Medical University of Vienna |
Austria,
| Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Technical Feasibility | The technical feasibility endpoint evaluates the possibility of video-interpreting. The occurrence of technical problems will be reported. |
Immediately after use of video-interpreting | |
| Primary | Usability of video-interpreting | The usability will be evaluated after the rescue mission by the prehospital emergency doctor using a questionnaire including following items on a 7-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree): Video-translation was easy to use. I feel comfortable to use video-translation during the situation. The amount of time involved to use video-translation has been fitting for me. I would use video-translation again. Video-translation was useful for my healthcare practice in this situation. |
Immediately after use of video-interpreting | |
| Primary | Impact on emergency physician's decisions | The impact of video-translation will be evaluated regarding alteration of medical history, treatment or target hospital. | Immediately after use of video-interpreting | |
| Secondary | Demographic parameters | Following characteristics of the patients will be recorded: Age, Gender, primary diagnosis of the prehospital emergency physician |
Immediately after use of video-interpreting |
| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed |
NCT03149276 -
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N/A |