NCT02283164

Drug Exposure Feedback and Education for Nurses' Safety

Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Oncology Nurses' Protective Equipment Use

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 396 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of an audit and feedback intervention to improve personal protective equipment (PPE) use by nurses who handle hazardous drugs in the ambulatory oncology setting.

Detailed description

The overall objective of the proposed study is to investigate exposures to hazardous antineoplastic drugs among oncology nurses who handle them. The specific project objective is to evaluate the efficacy of an audit and feedback intervention to improve PPE use by nurses who handle hazardous drugs in the ambulatory oncology setting. This project will pursue three specific aims: 1. Evaluate the efficacy of an audit and feedback intervention to improve recommended use of PPE; 2. Determine whether the intervention effects on PPE use are mediated by knowledge about PPE use and perceived risk of hazardous drug exposure, and; 3. Determine whether the intervention effects on PPE use are moderated by personal (experience, education, certification) and organizational factors (workloads, practice environments, safety organizing). To achieve these aims, 382 nurses employed in 11 oncology centers will participate in a cluster randomized controlled trial. Sites will be randomized so participants will receive a one-hour web-based educational module on hazardous drug safe handling with quarterly email reminders about the educational content (control) or the web-based educational module plus quarterly feedback on hazardous drug spills and drug levels measured in the study population (treatment). The hypothesis is that nurses in sites who receive the treatment will report significantly higher PPE use compared to nurses in sites assigned to receive the control. Data will also identify organizational factors that can be targeted for future interventions.

Conditions

• Occupational Health
• Hazardous Material Handling

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hazardous materials online education and study feedback	Participants will receive a 45-minute educational webinar on hazardous materials handing best practices at the beginning of the intervention period. Subsequently they will receive quarterly feedback of interim study results.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2014-11-05
• Last updated: 2019-09-04