Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Communication Barriers
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
- Enrollment
- 50
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Usability of video-interpreting
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- 12 days ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Christina Hafner
Principal Investigator
Medical University of Vienna
Eligibility Criteria
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Usability of video-interpreting
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Demographic parameters(Immediately after use of video-interpreting)