Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

Recruiting

• Conditions: Communication Barriers

• Registration Number: NCT06322004
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna

Brief Summary

50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included in this study. The prehospital emergency physician will start video-interpreting via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analysed.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-02-06
• Study First Submitted: 2023-10-25
• Status Verified: 2024-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-03-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-03-13
• Study First Posted: 2024-03-20
• Last Update Posted: 2024-03-20
• Primary Completion: 2025-02-05
• Study Completion: 2025-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• adult patients, at least 18 years old
• awake, responsive patients
• language barrier (Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech)

Exclusion Criteria

• unconscious patients
• out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients
• delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting
• refusal of video-interpreting by the patient

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Usability of video-interpreting	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	The usability will be evaluated after the rescue mission by the prehospital emergency doctor using a questionnaire including following items on a 7-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree): * Video-translation was easy to use.; * I feel comfortable to use video-translation during the situation.; * The amount of time involved to use video-translation has been fitting for me.; * I would use video-translation again.; * Video-translation was useful for my healthcare practice in this situation.
Impact on emergency physician's decisions	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	The impact of video-translation will be evaluated regarding alteration of medical history, treatment or target hospital.
Technical Feasibility	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	The technical feasibility endpoint evaluates the possibility of video-interpreting.; The occurrence of technical problems will be reported.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Demographic parameters	Immediately after use of video-interpreting	Following characteristics of the patients will be recorded: Age, Gender, primary diagnosis of the prehospital emergency physician

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Medical University of Vienna; 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria