Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06322004

Enrollment

Registered

2024-03-20

Start date

2023-02-06

Completion date

2026-12-31

Last updated

2026-04-20

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Conditions

Communication Barriers

Keywords

Communication barriers, Prehospital emergency medicine, Emergency medicine, Emergency physician

Brief summary

50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included in this study. The prehospital emergency physician will start video-interpreting via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analysed.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

* adult patients, at least 18 years old * awake, responsive patients * language barrier (Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech)

Exclusion criteria

* unconscious patients * out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients * delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting * refusal of video-interpreting by the patient

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Technical Feasibility	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	The technical feasibility endpoint evaluates the possibility of video-interpreting. The occurrence of technical problems will be reported.
Usability of video-interpreting	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	The usability will be evaluated after the rescue mission by the prehospital emergency doctor using a questionnaire including following items on a 7-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree): * Video-translation was easy to use. * I feel comfortable to use video-translation during the situation. * The amount of time involved to use video-translation has been fitting for me. * I would use video-translation again. * Video-translation was useful for my healthcare practice in this situation.
Impact on emergency physician's decisions	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	The impact of video-translation will be evaluated regarding alteration of medical history, treatment or target hospital.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Demographic parameters	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	Following characteristics of the patients will be recorded: Age, Gender, primary diagnosis of the prehospital emergency physician

Countries

Austria

Contacts

CONTACTMaike Fink, Dr.med.univ.

maike.fink@meduniwien.ac.at01/40400 41000

CONTACTChristina Hafner

christina.hafner@meduniwien.ac.at

Outcome results