Health Literacy for Children With Atopic Dermatitis and Their Caregivers

University of Missouri (MU)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Atopic Dermatitis

Treatments: Behavioral: Nurse instruction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01138761

1164097

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of additional nursing instruction for the caregivers of newly diagnosed pediatric atopic dermatitis patients at the University of Missouri Dermatology clinic.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of additional nursing instruction for the caregivers of newly diagnosed pediatric atopic dermatitis patients at the University of Missouri Dermatology clinic. Caregivers of children with atopic dermatitis will be randomized to one of two instruction/education procedures. The goal is to determine if improved retention of information by caregivers/parents of children with atopic dermatitis is associated with better patient outcomes.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• New clinical diagnosis of pediatric atopic dermatitis, or existing atopic dermatitis but new patient to MU dermatology
• Age 7 or under

Exclusion criteria

• Age 8 or above

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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33 participants in 2 patient groups

Physician/resident instruction

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm is standard of care instruction given to parents/caregivers of children with atopic dermatitis by the dermatologist and/or dermatology resident during a patient visit.

Nurse instruction

Active Comparator group

Description:

Following the usual standard of care instruction by physician/resident (which both the treatment group and the non-treatment group will receive); the dermatology nurse will give enhanced instruction about skin care and medications to the caregivers/parents who were randomized to the treatment group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nurse instruction