A Parental Educational Intervention to Facilitate Informed Consent for Pediatric Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Informed Consent Process

Treatments: Other: computed-assisted information program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01850329

KMUH-IRB- 980425

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is planning to develop the computed-assisted information program and determine whether the computed-assisted information program are superior to routine discussion for informing parents in the emergency department (ED) about risks, benefits, and alternatives to receiving procedural sedation for their children.

Enrollment: 67 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents with patients under 18 years of age
• patients receive the procedural sedation and anesthesia in the emergency department

Exclusion criteria

• clinically unstable
• refuse to participate
• unable to understand the consent process for this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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67 participants in 2 patient groups

control

No Intervention group

Description:

No computed-assisted information program will be administered.

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

computed-assisted information program will be administered.

Treatment:

Other: computed-assisted information program