Utility of a Clinically Relevant Decision Aid, for Parents Facing Extremely Premature Delivery
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Prematurity; Decision Support
- Sponsor
- Christiana Care Health Services
- Enrollment
- 200
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Decisional conflict
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess in a pilot randomized controlled trial the following PICOT question: In parents facing extreme premature delivery, does the use of an existing validated visual decision aid as compared to standard counseling, reduce the primary outcome of parental decisional conflict? Furthermore, is such a decision aid understood and applicable across differing populations of different ethnic backgrounds and social classes?
Investigators
Ursula Guillen
Principal Investigator; Assistant Professor
Christiana Care Health Services
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •physicians who counsel women at the limits of viability
- •women who are receiving counseling at the limits of viability
Exclusion Criteria
- •Known congenital malformations or lethal anomalies, still birth in which the fetuses' death was known before labor.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Decisional conflict
Time Frame: within 1 week after consult
Decisional conflict is the state of uncertainty about the course of action to take when making choices involving risk or uncertainty of outcomes. Decisional conflict is assessed using the Decisional Conflict Scale
Secondary Outcomes
- Knowledge(within 1 week after consult)