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CompletedNCT03195842Updated Jun 22, 2017

Audio-Recorded Discharge Instructions for LEP Parents

An interventional study of Recordable card in Limited English Proficiency and Disparities, sponsored by Seattle Children's Hospital. Completed. Open to participants aged Up to 18 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-06-22.

Sponsored by Seattle Children's Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 3 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Mar 2016, registered Jun 2017).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
83
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
Up to 18 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

In this pilot study, limited English proficient (LEP) parents of children at Seattle Children's Hospital for day surgery will be randomized to usual discharge care or usual discharge plus language-concordant, audio-recorded instructions via recordable card. these cards are similar to recordable greeting cards, and can record up to 180 seconds of information. They can be played back over 100 times. We will follow-up with families 2-7 days later to assess satisfaction and comprehension of discharge instructions.

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Conditions studied

  • Limited English Proficiency
  • Disparities
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In context

Lead sponsor

Seattle Children's Hospital is the lead sponsor of 214 studies on the registry; 43 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 18 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Limited English proficient (LEP) parents of day surgery patients at Seattle Children's Hospital (main campus) who prefer one of the following languages for care: Spanish, Somali, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Mandarin, or Cantonese. Eligible parents are those receiving condition-specific discharge instructions about one or more of the following: a new medication, wound care, diet advancement, return precautions, or more than 1 follow-up appointment

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Child being kept overnight at hospital following surgery
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
83 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    Usual discharge care

    Standard discharge instructions, meaning conversation with physician, usually via interpreter, along with written instructions compiled by the nurse. Written instructions include pre-translated handouts for common languages, and untranslated (English) patient-specific instructions.

  • Experimental
    Recordable card

    Usual care, as above, plus patient-specific and standard instructions recorded in the patient's preferred language for care and given to them on a card to take home.

    Other: Recordable card

Interventions

  • OtherRecordable card
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Comprehension of discharge instructions

    Parent-reported instructions (medication, home care, follow-up, and return precautions) compared to documented instructions

    Time frame: 2-7 days after discharge

Secondary outcomes

  1. Confidence in caring for the child post-discharge

    Using 7 health care transition measures

    Time frame: 2-7 days after discharge

  2. Satisfaction with card

    Measures of satisfaction with the recordable card, asked of those who received one

    Time frame: 2-7 days after discharge

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Mar 2016 to primary completion in Sep 2016, 6 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 20, 2017
First posted
Jun 22, 2017
StartActual
Mar 10, 2016
Primary completionActual
Sep 26, 2016
CompletionActual
Sep 26, 2016
Last update
Jun 22, 2017
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 22, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03195842
Responsible party
K. Casey Lion (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 22, 2017
Start date
Mar 10, 2016
Primary completion
Sep 26, 2016
Completion
Sep 26, 2016
Last update
Jun 22, 2017

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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