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

Health Communication Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01659879
• Other study ID #: LBK-2010/12-1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2011
• Est. completion date: August 2011

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 101
• Est. completion date: August 2011
• Est. primary completion date: March 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 10 Years to 105 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Communication

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Multimedia information

• verbal information

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Department of Pediatrics, St. Olav's University Hospital	Trondheim

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	St. Olavs Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

References & Publications (1)

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. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	parental anxiety	evaluated with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (translated to Norwegian)	at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
Secondary	parental satisfaction with nursing care	evaluated with the Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CECSS)	at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
Secondary	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.	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.

External Links

•   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
•   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