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Decreasing Medication Errors by Caregivers Using a Health Literacy Intervention

23. april 2015 opdateret af: Columbia University
Giving medications to children can be confusing; studies have shown that caregivers make dosing administration errors up to 50% of the time. There are many reasons that there are so many errors, including the fact that dosing for children is based on their weight, liquid medications come in many different forms, and caregivers often give medicines using kitchen teaspoons and tablespoons. Caregivers who have difficulty reading have even more difficulty understanding medication instructions. We are developing and testing a web-based educational module to teach caregivers how to give medications. We are focusing on the pediatric emergency department because we know that this population has low literacy levels, and that many antibiotics are prescribed in this setting. We anticipate that those caregivers that view the interactive module will have increased knowledge on how to give medications once they get home.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Dosing error rates of home administration of medications to children have been reported to be as high as 50%. Contributing to this error rate are the complexity of pediatric weight-based dosing, confusing formulations of liquid medications, and a reliance on non-standardized dosing tools such as kitchen teaspoons and tablespoons to administer medications. Families with low health literacy are at particular risk for medication administration errors. Health literacy promoting interventions to improve medication administration such as dissemination of a pictogram-based medication list have been shown to work for common over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen, but their effect on administration practices for common medications prescribed in the pediatric emergency department (PED) has not been evaluated. Of the 50,000 patients seen in the PED each year, approximately 85% of patients are discharged with a prescription for medication. This makes the PED an ideal setting to implement a health literacy intervention to reduce medication administration errors at home. The investigators are proposing to conduct a randomized controlled trial of an educational module focused on how to administer antibiotics at home and test whether there is an improvement in care practices.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

132

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Forenede Stater
    • New York
      • New York, New York, Forenede Stater, 10032
        • Columbia University Medical Center

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

2 måneder til 8 år (Barn)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

Caregivers of:

  • Patients aged 2 months to 8 years
  • Patients triaged to Emergency Severity Index (ESI) level 4 or 5 in the pediatric emergency department.
  • Patients with at least one prescription for a liquid, tablet or ointment antibiotic.

Exclusion Criteria:

Caregivers of:

  • Patients in need of immediate care.
  • Patients hospitalized.

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Sundhedstjenesteforskning
  • Tildeling: N/A
  • Interventionel model: Enkelt gruppeopgave
  • Maskning: Enkelt

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Eksperimentel: Fever assessment and management
Medication administration educational module for low literacy subjects on how to administer common medications appropriately and safely.
Andet: Medication administration educational module
The Research Assistant (RA) will enter the subject's language (English or Spanish), the type of medicine (tablet/capsule, liquid, or ointment) from the antibiotic prescription, and the frequency (once a day, twice a day, three times a day, four times a day) from the antibiotic prescription into the web-based educational module on medication administration so that a tailored module will be setup for the subject. The subject will then view the educational interactive module. After the subject is done with the module, the RA will administer a verbal post-test. The post-test will include questions on medication administration as well as questions on fever assessment and management.
Andre navne:
  • Health Literacy Intervention

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Score on the telephone interview post-test
Tidsramme: 48-72 hours post Emergency Department visit
Subject scores will be dichotomized in the follow way: anything less than 100% will be considered incorrect, a score of 100% will be considered correct.
48-72 hours post Emergency Department visit

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Prevalence of perfect performance on each element of the questionnaire
Tidsramme: 48-72 hours post Emergency Department visit
Each answer on the telephone interview post-test will be dichotomized into a correct/incorrect answer.
48-72 hours post Emergency Department visit

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Sponsor

Columbia University

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Anupama Subramony, MD, MBA, Columbia University

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. februar 2011

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. januar 2013

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. januar 2013

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

4. februar 2011

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

10. februar 2011

Først opslået (Skøn)

11. februar 2011

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

24. april 2015

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

23. april 2015

Sidst verificeret

1. april 2015

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • AAAI0786

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