Multimedia Based Information to Parents in a Pediatric Acute Ward: A Randomized Controlled Trial

December 28, 2023 updated by: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The aim of this study is to determine whether multimedia based health information presented in a pediatric acute ward to parents of children with breathing difficulties due to lower respiratory tract infections, is more effective than verbal information to reduce the parent's anxiety and to increase satisfaction with nursing care and health information.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The intervention website www.syktbarn.no is an open Norwegian online resource for parents of small children, and the site contains videos, audio clips, animations, illustrations, pictures and text materials regarding children's illnesses and normal development. In addition, the parents can use an interactive symptom checker that will help them to decide what to do and when to seek medical advice when their child is sick. The uniqueness of the website is the authentic video clips of sick children with common childhood symptoms like breathing difficulties, signs of dehydration, rash, cough and fever.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

101

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Norway
      • Trondheim, Norway
        • Department of Pediatrics, St. Olav's University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • parents of 0-15 years old children with breathing difficulties caused by LRTI (bronchiolitis, laryngitis or pneumonia) or asthma exacerbation
  • ability to communicate and read Norwegian

Exclusion Criteria:

  • parents of children with chronic diseases who have direct access to the acute ward, children with oxygen saturation less than 90 %, or other very sick children who need urgent treatment

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: multimedia information
Health information concerning the child's diagnosis, treatment and recovery time after evaluation by the pediatrician, using a 15 minutes long standardized health information package with multimedia elements from the Norwegian website www.syktbarn.no (English version: www.childhealthguide.com)
Behavioral: Multimedia information
Active Comparator: verbal information
Verbal health information by a nurse in the acute ward concerning the child's diagnosis, treatment and recovery time, after the evaluation by the pediatrician
Behavioral: verbal information

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
parental anxiety
Time Frame: at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
evaluated with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (translated to Norwegian)
at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
parental satisfaction with nursing care
Time Frame: at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
evaluated with the Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CECSS)
at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours.
Parental satisfaction with the health information given in the acute ward.
Time Frame: 1-2 weeks after discharge from the hospital. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours, and an average stay in the children's department is 2 days.
Evaluated with a structured telephone interview 1-2 weeks after hospital discharge, performed by the main researcher.
1-2 weeks after discharge from the hospital. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours, and an average stay in the children's department is 2 days.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Collaborators

St. Olavs Hospital

Investigators

  • Study Director: Jon Skranes, MD, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Principal Investigator: Henrik Døllner, MD, PhD, St. Olavs Hospital

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2011

Study Completion (Actual)

August 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 2, 2012

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 3, 2012

First Posted (Estimated)

August 8, 2012

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

December 29, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 28, 2023

Last Verified

December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • LBK-2010/12-1

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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