Video Education: Capitalizing on Caregiver Time Spent in the Pediatric Emergency Department Waiting Room

Medical College of Wisconsin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Passenger Seat Safety

Treatments: Other: Child passenger safety video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02242682

527345

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if video education is an effective means of caregiver education in the waiting room of a pediatric emergency department (ED). This will be tested with the showing of a child passenger safety video.

Enrollment: 220 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• caregivers of patients presenting to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin for treatment
• family use of automobile for transportation

Exclusion criteria

• non-English speaking caregivers
• triage level 1 or 2 or requiring immediate medical attention

Trial design

220 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

This group of subjects will not be exposed to a video during their time in the ED waiting room

Child passenger safety video

Experimental group

Description:

This group of subjects will be exposed to a video during their time in the ED waiting room

Treatment:

Other: Child passenger safety video