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The Fontan Education Study: A Randomized Control Trial

NCT02831790 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2018-10-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Fontan Education Study is a cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of a novel education program in combination with usual care, versus usual care alone, on preparing parents of children undergoing Fontan surgery for the challenges of the postoperative course.

Conditions

  • Heart Defects, Congenital

Interventions

OTHER

Fontan Education Videos

The intervention will consist of three brief (\~5 minute) professionally-developed whiteboard videos, available online. The videos will feature lay language at a grade 7 level or below and will be engaging. Topics are based on key findings of the Family Resilience Study, namely: 1. Stress reactions in children and parents post Fontan. This video will be supplemented with existing resources on the topic. 2. Anticoagulation 3. Prolonged pleural drainage

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andrew S Mackie, MD, SM · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-31
Primary Completion
2018-07-31
Completion
2018-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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