Teaching Injury Prevention

NCT ID: NCT01958099

Last Updated: 2013-10-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 359 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-09-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to compare the costs, ability to effectively screen and distribute relevant safety information, and assess products purchased and behavior changed by families after meeting with an injury prevention specialist compared to using a computerized emergency department kiosk. There will be a significantly greater reported practice of safety behaviors by families who visit a pediatric emergency department after using a computerized kiosk for injury screening and providing tailored recommendations than when the prevention information is provided by an injury prevention specialist.

Detailed Description

In the past few years, physicians have been proposing that an emergency department visit may act as a "teachable moment" and emergency medicine physicians should educate families about injury prevention. With an epidemic number of injuries occurring, every health care provider should play some role in combating the problem. However, emergency departments can be busy and overcrowded, making it difficult for staff, in a cost efficient manner, to be able to provide families with the appropriate injury prevention information. Kiosks have been shown to be effective in a pediatric emergency department setting to determine the needs of families and to educate them about safety practices. Thus, computerized kiosks may offer a more cost effective alternative to educating families, compared to a staff member, about injury prevention in the emergency medicine setting and they would have the ability to reach more individuals during the non-high peak emergency department hours which are difficult to staff. Also, a computerized kiosk may be more effective in eliciting a behavior change than a staff person as families may be inclined to answer more freely when asked questions anonymously, allowing them to receive more detailed safety information. In addition, the kiosk provides direct recommendations about behavior changes based on parental responses in a very short time period. Typically, families only hear about a few behavior change recommendations when discussing with an injury prevention staff person in an emergency department setting due to time constraints and family interest. With more directed injury prevention information and detailed recommendations on behavior changes in a cost efficient manner, kiosks may prove to be more effective in having families practice safer behaviors after leaving the pediatric emergency department.

This is a comparative study performed in the emergency department of a level 1 pediatric trauma center during the normal business hours of the Safety Resource Center. Families entering the pediatric emergency department for care will be randomized on specific days of the week to receive IP information from an IP specialist or from a computerized kiosk in the waiting room. A twenty day block random numbers table will be used to determine which days families entering the ED will utilize the computerized kiosk and which days they will be screened by clinical research assistants (CRCs) and provided with safety instructions by an IP specialist.

Conditions

Injury Prevention

Keywords

Injury Prevention

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Injury Prevention Specialist

Group Type: OTHER

Education

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Kiosk Intervention

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Education

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interventions

Education

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Any parent/legal guardian of a child between the ages of 0-14 presenting to the emergency department with an acuity level of 3, 4, or 5 (per CCHMC ED guidelines) as determined by a triage nurse will be eligible for participation.

Exclusion Criteria

• Family with a child presenting to the emergency department with an acuity level of 1 or 2 as given by a triage nurse.
• Non-English speaking families
• A parent or legal guardian who is less than 18 years of age
• A parent or legal guardian with a child who is greater than 14 years old.
• Primary parent or guardian not present with the child being seen in the Emergency Department.
• Families who are unable or unwilling to complete follow-up procedures

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ohio Department of Public Safety

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Michael A. Gittelman, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Locations

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Countries

United States

References

Gittelman MA, Pomerantz WJ, McClanahan N, Damon A, Ho M. A computerized kiosk to teach injury prevention: is it as effective as human interaction? J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Sep;77(3 Suppl 1):S2-7. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000317.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 25153050 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

CIN381904

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id