An interventional study of Audio Discharge patient education in Focus on Illiteracy in Patients and Optimal Patient Education, sponsored by Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. Not yet recruiting. Open to female participants. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-05.
Sponsored by Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
Significance: Not all patients can read discharge instructions even when the documentation is provided in their preferred language. Our emergency department strives to provide language-concordant discharge instructions to all patients; however, we do not have access to written instructions in Haitian creole, K'iche, or other less commonly spoken languages. Providers often give these patients discharge instructions in English, or the next closest language, such as French for our Haitian creole speaking patients, or Spanish for K'iche speaking patients. Discharge instructions are also provided verbally using a language-concordant phone interpreter. However, connectivity issues and interpreter access often pose challenges to effective communication and verbal instructions are often an overwhelming amount of information to process and remember. At Women and Infants Hospital, the most vulnerable populations are Haitian Creole and K'iche, but those of Spanish speaking descent are also at risk.
Hypothesis/Outcomes: For patients who cannot read in their preferred language, if they are provided audio instructions in their preferred language, these instructions will be acceptable, feasible, and useful to patients.
Procedures:
Administer initial exploratory survey (part of the post-intervention survey) to:
Provide Intervention
Post-Intervention Survey
Post-Intervention Survey Questions
Patient identification question:
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Exclusion Criteria:
audio discharge patient education provided in preferred language
Other: Audio Discharge patient education
audio instructions in preferred language
Patient Acceptability of Audio Discharge Instructions
Patient acceptability of the audio discharge instructions will be assessed using 5-point Likert-type response options for satisfaction with the instructions, ease of access, helpfulness, and confidence in the instructions received. Responses range from 1 (Very Dissatisfied) to 5 (Very Satisfied), with higher scores indicating greater acceptability and a better outcome.
Time frame: From enrollment to 72 hours after discharge/provision of patient audio education
Feasibility of Intervention
To be determined by 2 measures: * Participant's ease of accessing the audio discharge instructions will be assessed using 5-point Likert-type response options. Responses range from 1 (Very Difficult) to 5 (Very Easy), with higher scores indicating greater acceptability and a better outcome. * The number of times the participant or loved ones listened to audio instructions with a score \>0 indicating feasibility of receiving instructions
Time frame: From enrollment to conclusion of data collection.
Usefulness of Audio Discharge Instructions to Patients
Perceived usefulness of the audio discharge instructions will be assessed using 2 measures: * A 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (Very Unhelpful) to 5 (Very Helpful). Higher scores indicate greater perceived usefulness and a better outcome. * Participant's understanding of discharge instructions will be rated by the Understanding of Discharge Instructions (UDI) Scale. Responses will be categorized from 1 (Poor Understanding) to 4 (Excellent Understanding) based on the number of return precautions they can discuss without omissions or inaccuracies.
Time frame: From enrollment to 72 hours after discharge/provision of patient audio education
No study locations are listed for this record.
Plan to share: No
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