Video Assisted Informed Consent for Lortab to Improve Patient Satisfaction and Knowledge

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Non-critical Emergency Room Patients Receiving Lortab Medication or Prescription During Their Emergency Room Visit
• Interventions: Other: video; Other: standard education

• Registration Number: NCT01374295
• Lead Sponsor: Albany Medical College

Brief Summary

In order to compare two different forms of patient education; patients who receive Lortab medication or prescription during their ED visit are randomized to receive either standard patient education (from healthcare provider) or video assisted education. After education, patient completes a survey, estimated to take 5 minutes to complete.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to compare different methods of teaching patients about their prescription medicines. It is possible that certain teaching methods are better than others at educating patients.

Patients who receive Lortab medication or prescription during their ED visit and agree to the study are randomized to receive either standard patient education (from healthcare provider) or watch a 3 minute video. After the medication teaching has been provided the patient is given the medicine and a asked to complete a ten-question survey. This takes approximately five minutes and asks the patient to rate the quality of the information received.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-03
• Status Verified: 2011-06
• Study First Submitted: 2011-06-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-06-14
• Study First Posted: 2011-06-15
• Primary Completion: 2012-01
• Study Completion: 2012-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-03-21
• Last Update Posted: 2014-03-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• non-critical emergency room patients being prescribed Lortab
• age 18 year or older

Exclusion Criteria

• emergency room patients not receiving Lortab as their first prescribed medication
• age less than 18 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
video	video	If randomized to this arm patient watches a 3 minute video
standard education	standard education	If randomized to this arm patient receives standard verbal education from healthcare provider.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
patient satisfaction and knowledge	survey is completed immediately after education, estimated time to complete survey is 5 minutes	comparison of patient completed survey following education via standard format or 3 minute video

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Albany Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Albany, New York, United States