None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
QUENDA is part of a broader research program aimed at using mobile devices and digital technology to better assess children’s pain. Digital mobile technology (e.g. mobile phones, tablets) can enable pain assessment tools that are interactive and respond to children’s inputs. The broader program seeks to embrace the potential of digital-enabled interactive tools and create new approaches to the assessment of pain that are better for kids, allow more engagement, and therefore give clinicians better insight into children’s pain, and enable better care. QUENDA is the first step in the program and is designed to better understand how children perceive and communicate their pain.
Interventions
Recruited participants will be asked to complete a single semi-structured interview lasting approximately 30 minutes, conducted by a trained member of the research team.
The interview will include collection of demographics for children (age, gender) and parents (age, gender, profession), and details of premorbid pain conditions or exposures. Child healthcare literacy will be assessed using the HLS-Child-Q15, and parent healthcare literacy will be assessed using the Newest Vital Sign. The remai
Recruited participants will be asked to complete a single semi-structured interview lasting approximately 30 minutes, conducted by a trained member of the research team. The interview will include collection of demographics for children (age, gender) and parents (age, gender, profession), and details of premorbid pain conditions or exposures. Child healthcare literacy will be assessed using the HLS-Child-Q15, and parent healthcare literacy will be assessed using the Newest Vital Sign. The remainder of the interview will consist of open questions and follow-up prompts regarding pain experiences and views following the Interview Guide. The interview will be conducted within 5 days of the child undergoing a surgical procedure, presenting to the emergency department or being admitted to a hospital ward for acute pain. There is no other activity or treatment involved in participation in this study. Results from this study will help guide future directions for the study team in using mobile devices and digital technology to better assess children's pain. The study participants for this study are not planned to be included in any further research apart from this study.
Sponsors
Child and Adolescent Health Service
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Children aged 0 to 16 years and/or their parents will be included who have in the preceding 5 days: • undergone a surgical procedure, or • presented to the Emergency Department with a condition associated with acute pain, or • been admitted to the ward with a condition associated with acute pain. For children aged less than 4 years, only their parents will be included. For children 4 or more years of age, both children and their parents will be included.
Exclusion criteria
Children with parents who are not able to understand sufficient English to consent to inclusion in the study.
Outcome results
None listed