Health Professions Students and Faculty Perceptions of Poisoning Severity

Poisoning Clinical Trial

Official title:

Health Professions Students and Facutly Perceptions of Poisoning Severity

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02553070
• Other study ID #: IRB201500799
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 16, 2015
• Last updated: November 12, 2015
• Start date: September 2015
• Est. completion date: November 2015

Study information

• Verified date: November 2015
• Source: University of Florida
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Inaccurate perceptions of the severity of an exposure may result in unnecessary visits to the Emergency Department or Health Care Facility which can result in crowding of Emergency Departments, unnecessary utilization of valuable health care resources, unnecessary treatments, and or mistakes / errors resulting in harm to the patient.

Inaccurate perceptions about the severity of an exposure can result in delays in proper evaluation and treatment resulting in harm or in some cases death of the patient.

Description:

Consumers and health professionals are often surprised about the toxicity (or lack of toxicity) after exposure to a number of pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical agents. Past experience with the survey used in this study has indicated that consumers and health professional perform about the same. Most individuals answer less than 50% of questions incorrectly.

Pharmacy students will be asked to participate in a short (5-7 minutes) survey (see below) that contains 21-short cases involving an exposure to a pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical agent. All cases involve children less than 19 years of age. Participants will be asked to indicate their year in pharmacy school (1st or 2nd) and their gender (f/m). The survey will be given after a scheduled examination or other classroom activity and will not involve class time. Students will be provided a link to an online version of the survey.

Conclusions will be derived through the analysis of the data. At a later date, all students in the class (whether they participated in the survey or not)students will be provided a link to video that describes the correct answers to each of the cases and an explanation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1000
• Est. completion date: November 2015
• Est. primary completion date: October 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All pharmacy students who agree to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Observational Model: Ecologic or Community, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Poisoning

Intervention

Other:
• Survey
Pharmacy students will be asked to participate in a short (5-7 minutes) survey (see below) that contains 21-short cases involving an exposure to a pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical agent. All cases involve children less than 19 years of age. Participants will be asked to indicate their year in pharmacy school (1st or 2nd) and their gender (female/male).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Florida College of Pharmacy	Gainesville	Florida

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Florida

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Survey will be used for perceptions of poisoning severity	Pharmacy students will be asked to participate in a short (5-7 minutes) survey that contains 21-short cases involving an exposure to a pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical agent. The survey will consist of two answers, either "Hospital" or "Home". The data will be complied using the percentage of correct answers on the poisoning severity.	Day 1	No