PADDINGToN - a study working with healthcare professionals and parents/carers to co-design resources for use in the UK and Ireland, aimed at improving medication safety for those giving medications to neonates in the home environment.
- Conditions
- Medication safety for those giving medications to neonates in the home environmentNot Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN17332620
- Lead Sponsor
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Brief Summary
2023 Interim results article in https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1204599 Parents' experiences of administering medication to neonates at home (added 09/11/2023)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 369
Parents/Carers (focus groups, co-designing resources, evaluation of resources):
1. Parents/Carers of babies receiving care on a neonatal unit in one of the 5 study sites who will require medication to be continued after discharge from hospital
2. Parents/Carers whose baby has recently been discharged from the neonatal unit at one of the 5 study sites and whose medication has continued after discharge
3. Arrangements will be made for Parents/Carers who do not have access to a smart phone or the internet to be able to contribute (eg face to face focus group may be offered where possible or phone credit will be provided)
Health Care Professionals
4. Nurses, doctors, ANNPs or pharmacy staff providing neonatal care in any of the five study sites
5. Other HCPs identified from the staff stakeholder map identified in 7.2.1 (eg NPPG, Irish Neonatal Health Alliance)
Neonatal parent support groups
6. Parents/Carers of babies who required medicines following discharge and are part of a neonatal parent support group identified in 7.2.1 (eg BLISS)
7. Parents/Carers of neonates whose babies were discharged from hospital within the last 5 years
Parents/Carers
1. Parents/Carers who do not speak English (the resources will initially be developed in English and then we will apply for further funding to allow them to be translated into other languages)
2. Parents/Carers whose baby’s medication is likely to stop prior to discharge
3. Parents/Carers whose baby has a terminal diagnosis, a severe congenital abnormality or critical illness (unlikely to survive).
4. Parents/Carers unwilling to have audio-visual recording of focus group/interviews
5. Parents/Carers less than 16 years of age (the resources will initially be developed for parents/carers able to consent themselves, however, once the co-designed resources are available, we would like to explore utility in this group of parents)
Health Care Professionals
6. HCPs not providing care to neonates requiring medicines
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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