NCT01630265

Caregivers' Knowledge of Emergency Department Discharge Instructions Improves With the Use of Video

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 436 (actual)
• Sponsor: Augusta University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Previous studies demonstrate that patients often have difficulty understanding their discharge instructions. Video discharge instructions have the potential to mitigate factors such as illiteracy and limited physician time, which may affect comprehension. Our goal is to determine if adding video discharge instructions affects caregivers' understanding of their child's emergency department (ED) visit, plan and follow-up.

Detailed description

Caregivers of patients, age 29 days to 18 years, with a diagnosis of fever, vomiting or diarrhea, and wheezing or asthma were randomized into written or video discharge instruction groups. In the ED, caregivers read standard written discharge instructions or watched a 3-minute video based on their child's diagnosis. They were then asked questions regarding information covered in these instructions. After completing the 20-point questionnaire, standard discharge procedure was followed. Caregivers were contacted by phone 2-5 days after discharge for a follow-up questionnaire. Usefulness of the discharge instructions was also assessed.

Conditions

• Evaluation of Video Discharge Instructions in Improving Understanding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Standard written discharge instructions	Group of caregivers who read the standard written discharge instructions prior to answering the questionnaire
OTHER	Video Discharge Instructions	Group of caregivers who watched the 3 minute video covering the information in the standard written discharge instructions prior to answering the questionnaire

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2012-06-28
• Last updated: 2012-06-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States