Improving Pediatrician Counseling About Infant Safe Sleep Using the Electronic Medical Record
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: ISA-MI, Standard of Care (SOC).
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Sudden Infant Death, Sudden Unexplained Infant Death. Basic parameters: 3 Days — 75 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Health IT to Reduce Disparities in Risks for Sleep-related Infant Deaths, (SAFE Start 2.0 Project)
Overview
The study team will evaluate the impact of an Infant Sleep Assessment (ISA) tool with motivational interviewing (MI) communication training on clinician-parent communication during 2-month Well Baby Visits (WBV) and parent reported and observed infant sleep practices. The study team's hypotheses are that 1) clinicians who utilize the ISA with MI training will more effectively communicate safe sleep information to their patients' parents, and 2) these parents will have safer infant sleep practices than parents whose clinicians are in a standard of care control group.
Detailed description
This research addresses the problem of unsafe infant sleep practices that increase the risk of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID), which includes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed. The study team will examine how a unique health information technology (HIT) tool impacts patient and provider outcomes when implemented in a pediatric primary care clinic serving a socioeconomically disadvantaged population that is primarily Black/African American. The study team's HIT tool - the Infant Sleep Assessment (ISA) - was developed through prior NIH-funded work and builds on the team's track record of innovative injury prevention research with parents and pediatric health care clinicians. During well-baby visits, the ISA assesses parents' reported sleep practices for their newborns. Using a programmed algorithm, the ISA identifies risky infant sleep practices and generates associated suggested feedback messages for the clinician that are derived from behavior change theory. This information is delivered via the electronic medical record (EMR) for the clinician's use during routine anticipatory guidance. To maximize the ISA's effectiveness, clinicians (pediatric residents) will receive a brief training in communication skills that are derived from Motivational Interviewing (MI). The study team will evaluate the impact of the ISA with MI communication training on clinician-parent communication during 2-month Well Baby Visits (WBV) and parent reported and observed infant sleep practices. The study team's hypotheses are that 1) clinicians who utilize the ISA with MI training will more effectively communicate safe sleep information to their patients' parents, and 2) these parents will have safer infant sleep practices than parents whose clinicians are in a standard of care control group.
Interventions
- Behavioral ISA-MI
Parents seen by clinicians randomized to the intervention group will complete the Infant Sleep Assessment (ISA), either prior to their visit using MyChart (Epic patient portal) or on a tablet computer in the exam room while they wait for their clinician; 2) a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) smart form is created in the EMR based on the assessment results, with risks and MI-informed strategies highlighted; this information will be derived from a pre-programmed algorithm and theory-based, tailored - Other Standard of Care (SOC)
Parents seen by clinicians randomized to the control group will receive the usual practice that pediatric residents are taught which follows the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Bright Futures Health Supervision Guidelines and includes age and developmentally based anticipatory guidance. As part of their training, residents receive formal teaching on core aspects of providing primary care to infants, including the AAP recommendations on safe sleep. This includes the recommended ABCS: babies
Primary outcome measures
- Changes in quality of infant safe sleep counseling provided by clinicians using new EMR-based tool as assessed by listening to recorded 2-month Well Baby Visits for control and intervention groups. [Time frame: 2-month Well Baby Visit]
- Changes in quality of infant safe sleep counseling provided by clinicians trained in Motivational Interviewing skills as assessed by listening to recorded 2-month Well Baby Visits for control and intervention groups. [Time frame: 2-month Well Baby Visit]
- Changes in parents' satisfaction with care provided by clinical residents as assessed by the follow-up survey parents in both control and intervention groups will receive at the 4-month Well Baby Visit. [Time frame: 4 months]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Analyze clinicians' experiences with the ISA intervention as assessed by the clinician close-out survey when clinicians graduate or the study ends (whichever happens first). [Time frame: Through Study Completion, an average of 2-3 years]
- Analyze ISA's advantages and disadvantages over standard anticipatory guidance as assessed by the clinician close-out survey when clinicians graduate or the study ends (whichever happens first). [Time frame: Through Study Completion, an average of 2-3 years]
- Review parents' experiences using the ISA tool as assessed by the Visit Exit Checklist (VEC) survey after the 4-month Well Baby Visit. [Time frame: 4 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- English and Spanish-speaking parents and legal guardians bringing their infants to the Harriet Lane Clinic (pediatric primary care clinic) for any of their early well baby visits (between 3-5 days up to 4 weeks of age)
- Maryland recognizes teen parents as emancipated minors, so they will be eligible to provide consent and participate.
Exclusion criteria
- Infant is considered medically complex (e.g., serious congenital anomaly, requires cardiorespiratory monitoring, etc.)
- Assigned resident is not enrolled in the study
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Harriet Lane Clinic — Baltimore
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05503771 · IRB00333492 · R01MD015818