Protecting Home Healthcare Workers: An Interactive Video-based App to Coach Workers Through Challenging Health and Safety-related Situations

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Occupational Exposure

Treatments: Behavioral: Video and App Review

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04593901

GRT00054864

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will create a video-based app that empowers home healthcare workers to communicate with clients and their families about managing health and safety hazards in client homes. Using a participatory approach, home healthcare workers will 1) review and revise video scripts and recordings that demonstrate effective and less effective communication strategies when talking to clients, families, and other stakeholders about health and safety hazards and 2) contribute to the creation and review of an interactive app that they perceive to be useful, usable, and desirable.

Full description

This project includes two of three original aims. The first aim (Aim 1), already completed, created scripts based on real-world scenarios regarding speaking with clients and families about health and safety hazards in their homes.

Based on the data from Aim 1, the research team has prepared scripts describing each scenario. Each scenario includes two to three different approaches that represent successful, less successful, and/or unsuccessful examples of communicating about solving difficult or complex health and safety challenges. Each scenario includes a short introductory statement about the context of the scenario and two to three subsequent scripts and/or recordings that demonstrate the different communication approaches. Scenarios with successful communication strategies present the approach and outcomes that are consistent with best practices for HHW's in a given situation.

In Aims 2 and 3, participants will participate in either an individual or group interview using Zoom, Teams, or similar. They will review scripted scenarios and, as they are developed, video recordings based on the scripted scenarios. They will answer questions about the relevance of the information, how realistic the dialogue is, the usefulness of the information, and changes/improvements they would make. In addition, participants will review an app designed to allow users to select the videos they wish to view, and view successful, less successful, and unsuccessful communication approaches and outcomes.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Home healthcare worker (including clinical, professional, and administrative staff)
• 18+ years of age
• 6 months of home healthcare experience
• access to computer/tablet/smartphone

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

Video and App Review

Other group

Description:

Single arm study in which home healthcare workers review and provide feedback on scripts and/or videos and on the usefulness, usability, and desirability of an interactive app in an iterative, participatory manner.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video and App Review