Provision of an information video prior to an infant’s diagnostic audiology assessment.
- Conditions
- Infant hearingEar - Deafness
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000886684
- Lead Sponsor
- The Royal Children's Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 315
Parents/caregivers who have:
•an infant who received a referral (screen refer or direct refer) to audiology from VIHSP during the study recruitment period
•the capacity to provide informed consent to participate
•internet access and the capacity (via a device and valid email address) to receive study documents electronically and complete study activities online
•sufficient English that they can complete the study documents and activities adequately without the use of an interpreter.
Parents/caregivers
•whose infant is medically unstable or being palliated
•whose infant is in ‘out of home care’
•who are unable to complete the study documents and activities due to their English language level
•who exhibit a level of distress whereby VIHSP staff consider an invitation to participate in the study to be detrimental to their wellbeing.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Knowledge about the infant diagnostic audiology appointment assessed using the study designed knowledge questions [ Single survey timepoint - post randomisation (and prior to attendance at the diagnostic audiology appointment). ]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety assessed using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults - Short Form[ Single survey timepoint - post randomisation (and prior to attendance at the diagnostic audiology appointment). ];The number of infant diagnostic audiology appointments required to reach a complete audiology diagnosis as assessed by the number of audiology appointment attended to confirm the infant's level of hearing. [ Following completion of the diagnostic audiology assessment (data extracted from the VIHSP clinical database at data analysis). ]