Pain Relief Satisfaction With New Educational Materials

University of New Mexico (UNM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction

Treatments: Other: Access to website; Other: Access to routine information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03698773

18-642

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study compares patient satisfaction after labor and delivery with access to either the default educational materials available, or to a table computer set to display an educational website, thepainlesspush.com.

Full description

This is a prospective randomized controlled study. The investigators hypothesize that parturients with access to the website will exhibit greater satisfaction with labor and delivery pain control.

Potential participants will be recruited from the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) Labor & Delivery floor. Patients will be enrolled following an oral consent process. They will be randomized into either control group or intervention group. Control group participants will have their standard of care visit with an anesthesiologist and routine hospital pain-relief information. Intervention group participants will have their standard of care visit with an anesthesiologist, plus one hour in which to view the patient education website thepainlesspush.com, on an iPad provided by the Anesthesiology department for this purpose. After their delivery and transfer to the mother/baby unit, participants will complete a satisfaction survey brought to them by a study team member. Participants will complete the survey following their delivery and prior to discharge. The primary team will notify us with expected discharge in which we will retrieve the survey from them in their room and answer any last questions. Their active participation in the study will be complete at this time. After a participant completes the satisfaction survey, research team members will collect demographic information and relevant obstetric/medical history information from the electronic medical record.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All English- or Spanish-speaking patients who are admitted to UNMH Labor and Delivery for planned progression to active labor.

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 18 years
• Patients unable to provide consent for medical procedures
• Patients who do not speak either English or Spanish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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106 participants in 2 patient groups

Baseline Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Access to existing educational materials about labor/delivery pain relief options, as well as an opportunity to ask physicians, nurses, and other relevant personnel for more information.

Treatment:

Other: Access to routine information

Website Group

Experimental group

Description:

Access to a tablet computer set to display an educational website (thepainlesspush.com) with information about labor/delivery pain relief options, as well as an opportunity to ask physicians, nurses, and other relevant personnel for more information.

Treatment:

Other: Access to website