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Supporting Safe Use of Medications by Parents After Infant Discharge From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Summary
This is a randomized controlled study of parents of children to be discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit at Bellevue and Elmhurst hospitals. A total of 425 subjects will be recruited across two sites over preparatory phases and two primary study phases.
Official title: A Randomized, Controlled Study of a Health Literacy-informed Technology-based Approach to Support Safe Medication Use by Parents After Discharge of Infants From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
425
Start Date
2021-03-10
Completion Date
2027-02
Last Updated
2025-08-05
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
HELPix
HELPix parents will receive usual care as above, after which trained staff will generate HELPix patient-/regimen-specific medication instruction sheets and review them with the parent. Instruction sheets include optimized instructions (mL-only, doses appropriately rounded, visuals of recommended tool (e.g. 1-mL syringe best for doses of \<1 mL), explicit frequency information (e.g. 'morning and night' instead of '2x/day') reinforced by pictograms (e.g. sun/moon icons)). For each medication, staff will: 1) review the dose (refer to the pictographic dose diagram, which illustrates optimal dosing tool filled to correct amount), 2) demonstrate the dose using optimal dosing tool, 3) ask parent to 'teachback'/'showback' dose (e.g. parent shows provider how much they would give by pulling back plunger on syringe to right level), 4) provide optimal dosing tool for the parent to take home. We anticipate this process will take \~5-10 minutes.
HELPix+Tech
After parent receives usual care and HELPix , trained staff will walk parent through the app on-boarding process to overcome initial barriers to use. Steps: 1) Parent texted link to personalized on-line instructions. 2) Parent clicks link to app. For each medicine: A. Dosing module with optimized instructions (c/w HELPix); parent teachback/showback of dose B. Frequency module supports simplified, explicit intervals (e.g. 'morning and night'), parent chooses convenient times (text reminders sent based on preferences). Time for TECH depends on # medicines and parent baseline knowledge; structured protocol used to see # teachback rounds needed .
Locations (1)
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York, United States