Antibiotic Education for Children in an Emergency Care Unit

Urinary Tract Infections Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Therapeutic Education About Intake of Oral Solutions of Antibiotics in Children Under 6 Year-old at the Emergency Department in Robert Debré Hospital

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00948779
• Other study ID #: ID RCB 2008-A00892-53
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 2009
• Est. completion date: March 2012

Study information

• Verified date: July 2012
• Source: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if a patient education in acute condition about the intake of oral solution antibiotic in children under 6 year-old are effective to improve the satisfaction about the therapeutic education, the knowledge about antibiotics among the patients' families and thereby decrease the misuses of antibiotics.

Description:

Adherence to antibiotic regimen for common childhood illnesses, such as otitis media and streptococcal pharyngitis, is related to a variety of outcomes such as illness' remission, prevention of recurrent infections, maintaining of cost-effectiveness, and prevention of the growth of antibiotic-resistance. A patient and family 's therapeutic education about the intake of an oral solution of antibiotic should decrease the misuses of antibiotic, improve the family 's knowledge and the satisfaction of the patient and his family. Those factors are related to the understanding and adherence to the antibiotic prescription.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: March 2012
• Est. primary completion date: March 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 1 Month to 6 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• French-speaking patients seen at the emergency department and discharged with a diagnosis of bacterial infections (urinary and respiratory tract infections, streptococcal pharyngitis, acute otitis media) requiring 5 to 10 days of an oral solution of antibiotic.
• Under 6 year-old.
• No opposition of the parents to be included in the study.
• Personal health insurance.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Chronic pathology such as: Sickle cell disease, AIDS.
• Parents with insufficient knowledge of French.
• Family not reachable by phone.
• Antibiotic's suspected allergy.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communicable Diseases
• Emergencies
• Infections
• Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
• Pyelonephritis
• Respiratory Tract Infections
• Urinary Tract Infections

Intervention

Other:
• antibiotic education for children in an emergency care unit
Educational, Behavioral, and Organizational intervention to improve the use of oral antibiotics in children under 6 years
• antibiotic education for children in an emergency care unit
Educational, Behavioral and Organizational intervention to improve the antipyretic therapy in children under 6 years.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Hôpital Robert Debré	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (1)

Angoulvant F, Rouault A, Prot-Labarthe S, Boizeau P, Skurnik D, Morin L, Mercier JC, Alberti C, Bourdon O. Randomized controlled trial of parent therapeutic education on antibiotics to improve parent satisfaction and attitudes in a pediatric emergency dep — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	satisfaction (likert scale)		15 days
Secondary	Parent's knowledge		15 days and 6 months