Using Multimedia Digital Health to Enable and Engage Pediatric Inpatients and Their Parents

May 12, 2016 updated by: University of California, San Francisco

Using Multimedia Digital Health to Enable and Engage Pediatric Inpatients and Their Parents: A Pilot Study

This project leverages digital health technology to support patient engagement and shared decision-making between families, patients, and providers. The investigators will start by finalizing the educational module and adding randomization for the trial (Aim 1). The investigators will then complete iterative user testing in the live system through measurement of educational module views and usability feedback interviews with 20 end users (Aim 2). The investigators will then conduct a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of the educational module on existing measures of patient engagement (Aim 3). The hypothesis is that parents who receive the educational module will have higher scores on shared decision-making, patient activation and overall patient experience.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Completed

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Detailed Description

Hospitals are not consistently patient centered, contributing to worse outcomes and a sense of loss of control. Prior interventions that promote patient-centered care focused on provider and hospital factors vs. engaging patients directly. No project to date has capitalized on digital health technology to engage families in shared decision-making and patient engagement. The goal of the proposed randomized controlled trial is to test the impact of an evidence-based educational module delivered using an interactive patient-facing IT platform, on measures of patient engagement and shared decision-making. The platform was developed for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital by OneView, Inc. and includes an educational module that promotes shared decision-making through orientation to the hospital and evidence-based teaching on engaging with providers. This study will provide pilot data for a large-scale trial measuring the impact of the system on patient engagement. The investigators will start by finalizing the educational module and adding randomization for the trial (Aim 1). The investigators will then complete iterative user testing in the live system through measurement of educational module views and usability feedback interviews with 20 end users (Aim 2). The investigators will then conduct a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of the educational module on existing measures of patient engagement (Aim 3). Our hypothesis is that parents who receive the educational module will have higher scores on shared decision-making, patient activation and overall patient experience. The eligible study population is all pediatric and newborn inpatients and their caregivers from June 2015 - August 2015. The investigators anticipate needing a sample size of 100, 50 in each arm. This pilot will generate key information on the platform's feasibility and acceptability and initial data on effect sizes to power future large-scale grants.

Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

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58

Phase

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  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

No older than 95 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • An admitted patient (up to age 22) or caregiver (up to 95) of an admitted patient at Benioff Children's Hospital in the acute care units, the pediatric hematology-oncology units, or the transitional care units, admitted to the hospital within the past 72 hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Was already admitted and discharged during the study period.
  • Not an English speaker.
  • Not having a parent or legal guardian present or available by phone to give consent for those <18 years of age.
  • Patient is in foster care.

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Experimental: Treatment
Empower educational module: After the patient activation measure/s are collected, for parents or patients assigned to the intervention arm, they will be given an opportunity to launch the EMPOWER video and interactive powerpoint. They will be able to pause on reviewing the educational material and come back to it, as with other assigned education, and they will be able to review it again if they would like. Discharge surveys will be assigned 24 hours prior to the estimated discharge time in Apex. Oneview will display notifications that the surveys have been assigned.
Behavioral: EMPOWER Educational Module
Evidence-based video module delivering content of the Right Question intervention from Deen et al. (2011)
No Intervention: Control
Standard care: Those who opt to participate in the study will be randomly assigned to receive standard features of the media center (control group), or standard features plus the educational module intervention. They will complete online (1) a baseline patient activation survey (for patients old enough to complete and for caregivers) at the start of their participation, and (2) an end-of-study survey pre-discharge or at the end of the study period.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Change in activation as measured with the Parent Patient Activation Measure (PPAM)
Time Frame: Measured at enrollment, and at hospital discharge--duration of hospital stay is an average of 3 days. Calculated as change in PPAM scores.
Measured at enrollment, and at hospital discharge--duration of hospital stay is an average of 3 days. Calculated as change in PPAM scores.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Quality of Shared Decision-Making measured using the CollaboRATE 3-item scale
Time Frame: Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Quality of Shared Decision-Making measured using M-PICS scores
Time Frame: Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Length of Stay obtained from the Epic electronic health record
Time Frame: Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
30-day readmission obtained from the Epic electronic health record
Time Frame: Measured 30 days after discharge. Discharge occurs an average of 3 days after study enrollment
This is a binary measure assessing whether the patient was readmitted to the hospital (Benioff Children' Hospital) within 30 days after discharge date.
Measured 30 days after discharge. Discharge occurs an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Study Recruitment Rate
Time Frame: Baseline
Number of patients with at least one person agreeing to participate (either a family member or a child) / Number of eligible patients who were assigned the study introduction materials in the hospital electronic educational center
Baseline
Study Retention
Time Frame: Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Number of participants who complete the survey capturing the second patient activation measure prior to hospital discharge / Number of participants who completed the first Patient Activation Measure
Measured at discharge, an average of 3 days after study enrollment
Engagement with the Educational Module
Time Frame: Duration of the hospital stay, an average of 3 days
Number of participants viewing the EMPOWER educational module (intervention) at least once / Number of patients assigned the module. Data from the OneView system
Duration of the hospital stay, an average of 3 days
Repeated Engagement with the Education Module
Time Frame: Duration of the hospital stay, an average of 3 days
Number of views of the educational module for participants who viewed it at least once
Duration of the hospital stay, an average of 3 days

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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University of California, San Francisco

Investigators

Investigators

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  • Principal Investigator: Naomi S. Bardach, MD, MAS, University of California, San Francisco

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

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August 1, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

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January 1, 2016

Study Completion (Actual)

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March 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

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June 26, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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July 6, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

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July 7, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

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May 16, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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May 12, 2016

Last Verified

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May 1, 2016

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  • 15-16151

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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