Understanding How Medication is Stored in the Home

Poisoning Clinical Trial

Official title:

Understanding How Medication is Stored in the Home

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03894306
• Other study ID #: 18-01297
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: June 2021
• Est. completion date: June 2022

Study information

• Verified date: December 2021
• Source: NYU Langone Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to increase safe medication storage practices in homes with young children in order to prevent unintentional childhood poisonings.

As a step toward meeting this goal, this study aims to determine if an intervention to promote safe storage to patients who have young children in their home, including provision of a lock box or lock bag along with brief counseling versus brief counseling alone, results in 1) increased locked storage (and overall safe medication storage practices) of high-risk prescription medications in the home; 2) increased safe medication storage practices of other medications in the home; and 3) improved safe medication storage related knowledge and attitudes.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: June 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient in the buprenorphine clinic, high A1c clinic, or palliative care clinic at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

• Patient prescribed at least one high-risk mediation. A high-risk medication defined as a prescription medication that may cause significant toxicity or death with the ingestion of only one pill or a single adult dose.

• A child less than six years old is present in the patient's home on average at least 8 hours per week.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to speak and read English or Spanish

• No phone number for follow-up or unwilling to do follow-up by phone or in person

• Prior enrollment

• Patient was involved in pilot study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Poisoning

Intervention

Other:
• Medication lock box
given a lock box and instructed on how to use the device.
• medication lock bag
given a lock bag and instructed on how to use the device.
• brief counseling
After completing the per-intervention survey, a research assistant or investigator will perform brief counseling, including educational handouts and information on safe medication storage

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
NYU Langone Health

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Percentage of patients with locked storage of all high-risk prescription medications at one month follow-up.		1 Months