NCT03894306

Understanding How Medication is Stored in the Home

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to increase safe medication storage practices in homes with young children in order to prevent unintentional childhood poisonings. As a step toward meeting this goal, this study aims to determine if an intervention to promote safe storage to patients who have young children in their home, including provision of a lock box or lock bag along with brief counseling versus brief counseling alone, results in 1) increased locked storage (and overall safe medication storage practices) of high-risk prescription medications in the home; 2) increased safe medication storage practices of other medications in the home; and 3) improved safe medication storage related knowledge and attitudes.

Conditions

• Poisoning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medication lock box	given a lock box and instructed on how to use the device.
OTHER	medication lock bag	given a lock bag and instructed on how to use the device.
OTHER	brief counseling	After completing the per-intervention survey, a research assistant or investigator will perform brief counseling, including educational handouts and information on safe medication storage

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-06-01
• Completion: 2022-06-01
• First posted: 2019-03-28
• Last updated: 2021-12-10