Nurse-To-Family Telehealth

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Nurse-to-Family Video Chat

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05593900

1062184

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be a pilot test of using telehealth to allow nurses to connect with parents/guardians of pediatric patients who are being transferred between hospitals.

Enrollment: 291 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8+ days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children who:

• are aged 8 days to <=18 years
• present to a participating community hospital ED
• are accepted for inter-facility transfer to UC Davis
• are assigned to UC Davis unit D10, D7, or T6
• have an English-speaking adult parent/guardian at the bedside

Exclusion criteria

• does not have an English-speaking adult parent/guardian at the bedside

For parent surveys --

Inclusion Criteria:

• are parents/guardians of the eligible patients (described above)
• are age 18 years and older
• are English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

• are age less than 18 years
• have a preferred language that is other than English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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291 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Parents have the option to use telehealth to virtually connect with the nurse before transfer

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nurse-to-Family Video Chat

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard of care