Families and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Multidisciplinary Teams: How Well Do We Communicate

Communication Clinical Trial

Official title:

Families and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Multidisciplinary Teams: How Well Do We Communicate?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01371864
• Other study ID #: 10-1772
• Secondary ID: UNCDRE
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 9, 2011
• Last updated: April 21, 2017
• Start date: August 2011
• Est. completion date: December 2011

Study information

• Verified date: March 2013
• Source: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Purpose:

-To evaluate the peri-operative communication between families and the pediatric cardiac surgery team.

Method:

-In this study the investigators plan to utilize structured interview and survey of parents/legal guardians and health care providers of children undergoing cardiac surgery in the United States of America.

Description:

Every day clinicians face challenges when attempting to negotiate their way through dialogues with families whose children require surgical intervention in the near future. The area of clinician-patient communication with pediatric families is under-researched and highlights a pressing clinical problem. There are several adult studies that describe the content and nature of patient-physician communications at the time of cardiac surgery. However, there are no studies that evaluate the communications between nursing, physicians, and pediatric patient's families at the time of cardiac surgery. Further knowledge in this area is valuable in that a disparity between the these groups can lead to medical error, damage the clinician-patient relationship and provide grounds for dissatisfaction, complaints, or claim. This research will provide insight into what patient's families value in their communications with the medical team and assist the medical community in better meeting our children's families needs.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 23
• Est. completion date: December 2011
• Est. primary completion date: December 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primary language is English

• > 18 years age

• Nurse, physician, physician assistant, or parent / legal guardian of a pediatric patient who requires cardiothoracic surgery at the North Carolina Children's Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Primary language is not English. The interviewers all speak English as their primary language. People whose primary language is other than English will only be excluded if they do not have the ability to converse in English with the interviewers.

• <18 years of age. The parent / legal guardian must be of age to be the primary caregiver able to make decisions for their child.

• People with an intellectual or mental impairment that prohibits their capacity to make medical decisions for their child. Our research aims to investigate the relationship between the parent / legal guardians of pediatric cardiac surgery patients who interact with the pediatric cardiac surgery multidisciplinary team. These individuals must have sufficient mental capacity to be able to provide consent for their child to undergo surgery. Individuals with intellectual or mental impairment that prohibits their ability to give consent are therefore excluded.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communication

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	North Carolina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Peri-operative risk information	Parental and provider assessment of the content and nature of communications in the peri-operative time period. Specifically, the quantity and type of risk information required before consenting for surgery.	1 week
Secondary	Informed decisions	Parental and provider assessment of the content and nature of communications in the peri-operative time period. Specifically, the family's ability to make informed decisions.	1 week
Secondary	Trust in the medical team	Parental and provider assessment of the content and nature of communications in the peri-operative time period. Specifically, the families trust in the medical team.	1 week
Secondary	Desire for disclosure of peri-operative complications	Parental and provider assessment of the content and nature of communications in the peri-operative time period. Specifically, families desire for disclosure of peri-operative complications.	1 week