Pain
Conditions
Keywords
pediatric, pain
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate if an educational video viewed during the Emergency Department visit will improve parent knowledge of pain management, reduce parent anxiety, and change their use of analgesics at-home after discharge from the Emergency Department.
Detailed description
This study will investigate the use of a video instruction for parents just prior to discharge on pain treatment for their child. The investigators plan to investigate the effect of the video on knowledge because educational modules in the form of videotapes have been shown to be an effective method to improve a parent's knowledge about pain management prior to surgical procedures. Because parental anxiety has a significant impact on a child's experience of pain and video education has been shown to reduce parent anxiety before a procedure, the investigators will also evaluate if parental anxiety is reduced. Whether or not a short video will change the behavior of parents or their satisfaction with the outcome at home has not been investigated and will be an exploratory hypothesis for this study. This research will be a first step towards optimizing the outpatient care for common diagnoses in the Emergency Department.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPain management video
6-minute video
BEHAVIORALFalls Prevention Video
6-minute video
Sponsors
Medical College of Wisconsin
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
4 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* complaint of pain or injury and laceration, fracture or spring, contusion, crush injuries, head injury, motor vehicle collision, or burn.
Exclusion criteria
* non- English speaking parents * primary caregiver not with child in Emergency Department
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in parent knowledge from baseline | on day 0 in the ED | A parent knowledge test will be completed by parents prior to the video intervention, immediately after the video intervention, and on day 3 after the video intervention. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in anxiety from baseline | on day 0 in the ED | Parent's anxiety will be measured using a validated pain scale before and immediately after the video intervention |
| Pain medication use | assessed on day 0, 1, 2, 3 | Pain medicatin use collected in a diary at-home after ED treatment |
| Child's pain | on day 0, 1, 2, 3 | child's reported pain at-home after ED treatment |
| satisfaction | on day 1, 2, and 3 | child and parent at-home satisfaction utilizing a validated likert scale will be assesed on day 1, 2, and 3 after ED treatment to determine if the intervention results in improved satisfaction with pain treatment after discharge home |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed