Improvement in Urine Collection Methods in Children (0244-12-RMC)

Clalit Health Services

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Unspecified Fever; Urinary Tract Infection

Treatments: Device: Slitted diaper

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01895465

SCHNEIDER/7329

Details and patient eligibility

About

The population of children presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) for treatment increases day by day, creating a further burden on the limited nursing staff and where many children and their parents are forced to wait many hours until their medical investigation ends. Part of the many hours waited are for various tests the patient has to undergo, where the urine test is one of the main ones.

Urinary tract infections in children are a common cause of death due to acute and chronic complications alike. Our study aims to test a urine collection method to see whether it reduces parents' and/or nursing staff's involvement and thereby reducing the urine sample's percentage of contamination.

Full description

The study intends to explore whether on obtaining a pediatric urine sample by using a diaper in an innovative way can shorten the waiting time parents have to endure until an urine sample is perceived, and accordingly, the percentage of contamination in the samples obtained. The innovativeness introduced is that by using an ordinary everyday diaper, which is found in all marketing outlets, and by making a slit in the diaper where the pediatric urine collecting bag can be pulled out and thus allowing parents/care takers to see straight away whether urine has been given and thus cut back on opening and reopening of the diaper.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Children incapable of giving urine voluntarily in the Emergency Department
2. Children requiring an urine test
3. Children whose parents have agreed to take part in the research and have signed a consent form

Exclusion criteria

1. Children who have an immediate medical condition which requires catheterization
2. Parents who have declined taking part in the research
3. Children who give urine voluntarily
4. Children who do not need an urine test for their continued treatment

Trial design

150 participants in 1 patient group

A slitted diaper

Experimental group

Description:

An ordinary pediatric urine collection bag used in the ED that will be used together with the slitted diaper

Treatment:

Device: Slitted diaper