Acute gastroenteritis Digestive System
Conditions
Interventions
Participants will be randomly allocated to intervention or control groups.
The intervention is a 3-minute whiteboard animation video about acute gastroenteritis. The sham control is a
they will have an option to be sent a link to the video by email after having watched it. At the end of the study, all participants will be sent a link to both videos that were used in the study.
Sponsors
University of Alberta
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Parent or caregiver of a child 16 years or younger 2. Child is presenting to the emergency department with vomiting and diarrhea 3. Parent is fluent in English 4. Parent is willing to be contacted for follow-up data collection
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Child has significant chronic gastrointestinal problem or inflammatory bowel disease (i.e., Crohn's Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, chronic constipation) 2. Child is taking immunosuppressive therapy or has known history of immunodeficiency 3. Child has undergone oral or gastrointestinal surgery within the preceding 7 days 4. Child has had a prior visit to the emergency department for vomiting and diarrhea within the preceding 14 days
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Potential effectiveness will be assessed based on parent knowledge, decision regret, healthcare utilization, perceived benefit and utility of the intervention. All outcomes will be based on participant self-reports and collected through questionnaires completed by the participants. 1. Parent knowledge is based on 8 questions about acute gastroenteritis (informed by the Caregiver Gastroenteritis Knowledge Questionnaire); these questions will be asked at baseline, immediately after the intervention, and at follow-up (4-14 days post-intervention) 2. Parent decision regret is based on the Decision Regret Scale which consists of 5 items; these questions will be asked at baseline, immediately after the intervention, and at follow-up (4-14 days post-intervention) 3. Healthcare utilization includes two items about whether the participant returned to the emergency department or visited another healthcare provider because of their child's gastroenteritis; these questions will be asked at follow-up (4-14 days post-intervention 4. For perceived benefit and utility of the intervention, participants will answer 2 questions immediately after the intervention, and 5 questions at follow-up (4-14 days post-intervention). Participants who were randomized to the whiteboard animation video will be invited for a qualitative interview which will follow a semi-structured guide with 15 questions about their perceptions of the intervention and study processes. The interview will be conducted after the participant completes the follow-up questionnaire. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Feasibility of using an electronic, web-based platform for intervention delivery and data collection measured using data completion from the above measures and participant experience measured using qualitative interviews as above. | — |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed