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Buckle Me Up!: A Digital Emergency Department Discharge Intervention for Child Car Safety

NCT03799393 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 295

Last updated 2021-12-09

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Summary

This study explores the utility of a tablet computer-based, individually-tailored application called Computer Intervention Authoring Software (CIAS) in the Emergency Department for discharge education on proper child car restraint safety. The investigators hypothesize that tablet-based, individually-tailored discharge instructions are more effective than current standard, one-size-fits-all, printed discharge instructions. This is a randomized, controlled, non-blinded trial of of children age 0-21 years old in the Emergency Department. Patients will be randomized to receive either (a) a brief tablet-based questionnaire followed by standard, paper discharge instructions or (b) a brief tablet-based questionnaire followed by the intervention - CIAS, a tablet-based computer program. One week after discharge, participants in both groups will receive an automatic text message and/or email message with a link to a web-based survey that will assess: knowledge of appropriate car restraints and whether the parent/patient engaged in any behavioral changes regarding child car restraint. These variables will be compared between the control and intervention groups.

Conditions

  • Safety Issues
  • Injuries
  • Car Accident

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CIAS (Computer Intervention Authoring Software)

This is a digital application that allows families to interact with a tablet computer to receive educational information customized to the patient's age and size. allows authors to develop screening, assessment, and intervention tools for patients without requiring new programming. The CIAS intervention is programmed using tailored branching logic to allow a custom path through the intervention based on the respondent's answers. Delivery of the intervention uses a two-dimensional avatar narrator character that mimics the conversational structure of person-delivered brief interventions.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Printed Discharge Instructions

Patients/families will receive standard, printed discharge instructions. This is a 5 page general document from our Injury Prevention Center that describes appropriate car restraint safety for all age groups, not specific to the child enrolled.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lifespan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Duffy, MD, MPH · Associate Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-01
Primary Completion
2019-02-28
Completion
2019-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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