The effect of a culturally and linguistically appropriate patient education tool to improve conclusive electrocardiography stress testing results in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian patients.

In patients having an Exercise Stress Test (EST) does a culturally and linguistically appropriate education tool, in comparison to a placebo Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) education video, reduce inconclusive EST.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12614001184662

Acronym

BEST study

Enrollment

100

Registered

2014-11-11

Start date

2014-10-15

Completion date

2015-03-31

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

1. To develop a culturally and linguistically appropriate patient education tool to inform conduct of EST in Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians 2. To evaluate this tool to determine if it can reduce the proportion of inconclusive EST results Hypothesis: A culturally and linguistically appropriate audio-visual resource will be associated with reduced inconclusive EST results in Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians undergoing investigation for possible CHD.

Interventions

The BEST audio-visual tool in a culturally and linguistically appropriate education video that describes how to successfully complete an EST. The 5 minute language intervention tool will be played to patients by the researcher 10 minutes prior to the patients undergoing the EST in the waiting room. Those allocated to intervention will view the content using a hand held tablet computer (iPad) or a DVD in English or one of several local Aboriginal languages. The preference for language will be det

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Diagnosis

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. 18 years of age and older 2. patient at the Alice Springs Hospital 3. Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal AUstralian 4. participants need to be undertaking a maximal exercise stress testing at the Alice Springs Hospital

Exclusion criteria

1. Subjects are less than 18 years of age 2. Clinician assessment deems physically incapable of undergoing an exercise stress test 3. Maximal exercise stress test deemed inappropriate by supervising clinician (e.g. uniterpretable electrocardiogram (ECG) such as a left bundle branch block) 4. Maximal exercise stress test deemed to be conraindicated by supervising clinician (e.g. recent Acute Coronary Syndrome) 5. Patient is unable to provide informed consent

Outcome results