Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

Communication Barriers Clinical Trial

Official title:

Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06322004
• Other study ID #: 1718/2022
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: February 6, 2023
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Medical University of Vienna
• Contact: Maike Fink, Dr.med.univ.
• Phone: 01/40400 41000
• Email: maike.fink[@]meduniwien.ac.at
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: February 5, 2025
• 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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communication Barriers
• Emergencies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Austria	Medical University of Vienna	Vienna

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical University of Vienna

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Austria, 

Outcome

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