Teaching Injury Prevention

Behavior Change by Families in a Pediatric Emergency Department After Receiving Injury Prevention Information From a Safety Specialist Compared to a Computerized Kiosk

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Injury Prevention
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Education

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 359
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Ohio
    • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
      • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Injury Prevention Specialist	Behavioral: Education
Experimental: Kiosk Intervention	Behavioral: Education

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change to Practice Safer Behaviors	To determine if families cared for in a pediatric emergency department will report practicing safer behaviors after their visit if provided with targeted injury prevention information by a waiting room computerized kiosk in comparison with an injury prevention specialist.	16 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Use of Safety Equipment	To determine if families screened using a computerized kiosk in a pediatric ED will admit to purchasing and using safety equipment more often if provided with recommendations using a computerized kiosk compared to an injury prevention specialist.	16 months
Time Spent on Intervention	To compare the time spent to be screened and provided targeted safety recommendations from a computerized kiosk in a pediatric ED compared to an IP specialist in the same setting.	16 months
Patient Satisfaction	To look at patient satisfaction about the IP information received from a computerized kiosk in a pediatric ED versus an injury prevention specialist.	16 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
• Collaborators: Ohio Department of Public Safety
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Michael A. Gittelman, MD, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• 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.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: August 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 1, 2011
• Study Completion (Actual): September 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 4, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 7, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): October 8, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): October 8, 2013
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 7, 2013
• Last Verified: October 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Injury Prevention
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Wounds and Injuries
• Other Study ID Numbers: CIN381904