Identification and Research of Impacts of Social Categorization Process in Nurse Triage (SOCIAL SORTING)

Socialised Disturbance of Conduct Clinical Trial

— SOCIALSORTING  

Official title:

Identification of Social Categorisation Process Who Intervene During Patient Nurse Triage and Research of Them Impacts in Cares.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03379961
• Other study ID #: PHRIP-16-0206
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 10, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 17, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: University Hospital, Angers
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Social Sorting is a: non interventional, observational, qualitative and multicenter research. It investigates three French emergency units in three French centers (UH of Angers, H of Le Mans, H of Laval).

It is a research based on nursing sciences and social-psychology and it proposes to study the process of social categorization that intervenes during triage nursing.

The process of social categorization has developped since the beginning of XX century (LIPPMANN, in 1922, in United States, he gave the first definition of stereotype// DURKHEIM, in France described step by step the individuals and the collectives representations.

During XX century the social psychology developed a lot of studs about group dynamics (social categorization, influence phenomenon, conspiracy theories,...) within several domains : industry, politics, public services as police, social units,... and also in healthcare (but always about a social categorisation in particular and often with a limited study of impacts).

Social Sorting includes all social categorization as possible and search to do a scientific evaluation of their impact.

Description:

Emergencies units are a special way to access at cares. These units must continually adapt their practice because it is impossible to predict patient's flow, number of hospital's available beds and kinds of emergencies (medical, chirurgical, psychiatric, social). Organization and quality of cares are based on a balance between competences and human attributes.

The first step in medical care takes place thanks to the nurse triage. They must summarize a lot of information about patients ( such as medical letters, firemen's transmission,...) and make a quick clinical exam. This action permits to determine an emergency degree and prioritize it. This activity is based on clinical categorization and clinical tools (scales of triage).

The clinical categorization is a professional competence (nurses learn what categorization is at school and develop it at hospital).In this research social categorization will be confronted with another type of categorization : the social categorization.

The latter it is very different categorization, in fact, it is shared by anybody (nonprofessionals of healthcare and professionals). The social categorization can be described like the phenomenon that permits to simplify the reading of the world. That also permits for anybody to define itself and define the one or more group membership. That process is continually in movement (social prejudices changes according to History, depending on the place of the world htat person lives,...).

The social categorization process has a real impact on action, thinking and relation with the world and the others persons.

The social categorization reveals its process in prejudice (sensitive dimension), stereotypes(cognitive dimension, stereotypes are organized around a central trait and others peripherals traits) and conducts to discrimination (behavior dimension) about origins, diseases, age,....Social categorization provides of naive theorization about social objects. For instance, a man who stereotypes woman with blond hair thinking "she is stupid" when he sees her in the street ( that it is a prejudice, a central trait) and this feeling conducts him to think "she is superficial, she does not work, she watches reality TV show everyday,..."(that it is a stereotype with peripherals traits). If this same man does not accept to help this woman if she needs him, it can considered like discrimination.

A lot of studies in public administrations have shown the important influence of social categorization on power which exists in any relations and the non-personalization as final response. In healthcare domain for instance, the research of WILLIAMS have shown existence of "bads patients".

Our first hypothesis is that process of social categorization exists and it has several faces(potentially negative). We also make the hypothesis that they have impacts on several aspects of medical care like : waiting time, management of pain,....We finally do the hypothesis that exist links between : the presence of process of social categorization in triage nursing and : individual traits (race, sex, age,...), specificities of any contexts.

Social Sorting wishes to identify with scientific measure the presence of social categorization process in triage nursing and it is unprecedented.

Then it is also to describe the impacts of this process on several parts of the medical care.

It could be interesting to improve nursing staff. It could be also interesting to patients because it is the equality of health offer which is asked in Social Sorting. In France, in 2015, 10 billions of patients came in emergency units. The study of feasibility wich was done before Social Sorting has shown that 20 percent of nurses sorting include social categorization nurse.

The results of this research could interest professional of healthcare domain and socio-psychologist.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 504
• Est. completion date: February 17, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: February 17, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• all nurses who accept micro and all patients over the age of majority

Exclusion Criteria:

• all nurses who do not accept micro and all minor patients

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Socialised Disturbance of Conduct

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Angers	Angers
France	CH Laval	Laval
France	CH Le Mans	Le Mans

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Angers

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of patient stigmatized during nurse triage	It is the percent of patient stigmatised among the 504 contexts of triage nursing observed. To determine that, each situation of triage nursing will be examined by three analysts individually. After this time of individual analysis, there will be a time of collegial analysis. To consider that a nurse triage include social categorization it will take a collegial decision-making. A patient is considered like stigmatized when one or several social traits are mentioned during it triage nursing. For instance, if a fireman brings with a patient with twisted ankle and if he mentions that a patient is homosexual during his transmission. Homosexuality in this situation has not interest to taking care. It would have been different if this same patient were come to treat a sexual infection.	5 months
Secondary	Nature of social categorization	the description of the social categorization process observed during the triage, its nature (including verbal, non-verbal and written categorization) and themes (sociocultural origin, sex, age...). To determine that, each situation of nurse triage will be examined by three analysts individually. After this time of individual analysis, there will be a time of collegial analysis. For each analysis, analysts will have to define if one social categorization is mentions on verbal only or in non-verbal too for instance.	5 months
Secondary	Risk factors of social categorization	The research of links between the social categorization process in triage nursing and the risk factors which may increase the presence of it. The factors examined are : the context of sorting (flow of patients, people who are presents during the triage...) the specificities of any players in care relationship (sex, age, behavior...), the level of aggressiveness ( does it have a link between the presence of a social categorization and the level of aggressiveness ?). To determine that, analysts will compare if, for example, all patients coming for abdominal pain (with same clinical exam, same level of pain) during a sunday night will be sort similarly.	5 months
Secondary	Links between social categorisation and elements of medical care	the research of links between the existence of a social categorization process during the sorting and elements of medical care (waiting time, quality and nature of installation, pain support,...). To determine that analysts will compare if all patients, for example, wich coming with dyspnea (with same clinical exam) will be evaluate with the same emergency level or if subsaharan patients will be evaluate diferently.	5 months