Health Communication
Conditions
Keywords
Parents, Caregivers, Anxiety, Consumer satisfaction
Brief summary
The aim of this study is to determine whether multimedia based health information presented in a pediatric acute ward to parents of children with breathing difficulties due to lower respiratory tract infections, is more effective than verbal information to reduce the parent's anxiety and to increase satisfaction with nursing care and health information.
Detailed description
The intervention website www.syktbarn.no is an open Norwegian online resource for parents of small children, and the site contains videos, audio clips, animations, illustrations, pictures and text materials regarding children's illnesses and normal development. In addition, the parents can use an interactive symptom checker that will help them to decide what to do and when to seek medical advice when their child is sick. The uniqueness of the website is the authentic video clips of sick children with common childhood symptoms like breathing difficulties, signs of dehydration, rash, cough and fever.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMultimedia information
BEHAVIORALverbal information
Sponsors
St. Olavs Hospital
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
10 Years to 105 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* parents of 0-15 years old children with breathing difficulties caused by LRTI (bronchiolitis, laryngitis or pneumonia) or asthma exacerbation * ability to communicate and read Norwegian
Exclusion criteria
* parents of children with chronic diseases who have direct access to the acute ward, children with oxygen saturation less than 90 %, or other very sick children who need urgent treatment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| parental anxiety | at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours. | evaluated with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (translated to Norwegian) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| parental satisfaction with nursing care | at discharge from the acute ward. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours. | evaluated with the Consumer Emergency Care Satisfaction Scale (CECSS) |
| Parental satisfaction with the health information given in the acute ward. | 1-2 weeks after discharge from the hospital. An average stay in the acute ward is about 5 hours, and an average stay in the children's department is 2 days. | Evaluated with a structured telephone interview 1-2 weeks after hospital discharge, performed by the main researcher. |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed