Trial of a Nurse-Led Firearm Safety Intervention in the Pediatric Inpatient Setting
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm, Implementation bundle.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Firearm Safety, Suicide, Firearm Injury. Basic parameters: from 18 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
Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Nurse-Led Firearm Safety Intervention in the Pediatric Inpatient Setting
Overview
In this randomized controlled trial, researchers will assess the effectiveness and implementation of S.A.F.E. Firearm in the inpatient pediatric hospital setting. S.A.F.E. Firearm has been adapted for nurse-led delivery to parents/caregivers (hereafter, parents) of hospitalized youth. Adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm involves a brief discussion between nurses and parents about secure firearm storage and an offer of a free firearm cable lock. Researchers will test S.A.F.E. Firearm and a bundle of strategies intended to support the routinization of S.A.F.E. Firearm into nursing workflows. The questions the study aims to answer are: * How effective is adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm at changing parents' firearm storage behavior? * How effective is the implementation strategy bundle at increasing delivery of adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm? Some parents will be invited to participate in surveys about their experiences with adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm, and some nurses will be invited to participate in interviews about their experiences with the implementation strategy bundle.
Detailed description
The proposed study aims to reduce firearm-related deaths in children by scaling out an evidence-based secure firearm storage program. S.A.F.E. Firearm is an evidence-based program that includes (1) brief, parent-directed discussion on secure firearm storage using a harm reduction approach and (2) free cable locks offers to all parents during well child visits in pediatric primary care. Importantly, S.A.F.E. Firearm has potential to save lives beyond primary care, and pediatric inpatient settings are an advantageous context for S.A.F.E. Firearm implementation. Across the U.S. there are over 250 children's hospitals, approximately two million children are hospitalized yearly, and parental engagement is a core feature of care. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a large, nonprofit pediatric health care system with two freestanding children's hospitals in the greater Philadelphia region. As part of Aim 1 of this project, the research team is adapting S.A.F.E. Firearm for the pediatric inpatient setting and nurse-led delivery, plus developing a bundle of implementation strategies. The research team anticipates including an electronic health record-based reminder, education, and champions as part of the bundle.
In the present study, the research team will conduct a pragmatic parallel cluster randomized hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation trial across two CHOP hospitals. Inpatient nursing unit clusters will be randomized to receive adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm or usual care, defined as routine clinical care plus free cable locks available in the hospital safety center. Implementation outcomes will be examined through mixed methods.
Aims for the study include:
Aim 2. Conduct a pragmatic parallel cluster randomized hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation trial with inpatient nursing units at CHOP to test whether parents exposed to adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm report greater improvements in secure storage (primary outcome) compared to parents exposed to usual care over one year of active implementation. Secondary outcomes are additional firearm safety behaviors (e.g., firearm removal).
Aim 3. Examine the effect of the implementation strategy bundle on S.A.F.E. Firearm implementation outcomes. The research team will evaluate the proximal impacts of the implementation strategy bundle. The primary implementation outcome is reach (i.e., electronic health record-documented program delivery). Secondary outcomes include fidelity, acceptability, and maintenance. The research team will also explore implementation strategy processes and mechanisms via qualitative interviews with nurses.
Interventions
- Behavioral Adapted S.A.F.E. Firearm
S.A.F.E. Firearm is an evidence-based program that includes (1) brief, parent-directed discussion on secure firearm storage using a harm reduction approach and (2) free cable locks offers to all parents - Behavioral Implementation bundle
Electronic health record-based reminder, education, champions
Primary outcome measures
- Secure Storage [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge, collected over 1 year of active implementation]
- Reach [Time frame: Documented in EHR at point of intervention delivery over 1 year of active implementation]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Behavioral intention to increase secure firearm storage [Time frame: 24-72 hour post-discharge]
- Behavioral intention to ask about firearms where child stays/visits [Time frame: 24-72 hour post-discharge]
- Permanent or temporary removal of firearms [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Use of cable locks [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Purchase of additional safety devices [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Load status [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Lock and load status combined [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Ammunition status [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Inquiry about firearms where child stays/visits [Time frame: 2-4 week post-discharge]
- Secure storage (3 months) [Time frame: 3 month post-discharge]
- Permanent or temporary removal of firearms (3 months) [Time frame: 3 month post-discharge]
- Use of cable locks (3 months) [Time frame: 3 month post-discharge]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria (Health System Employees):
- Nurses who work on a nursing unit randomized to the intervention arm
Exclusion Criteria (Health System Employees):
- Not a nurse who works on a nursing unit randomized to the intervention arm
Inclusion Criteria (Parents of Hospitalized Youth):
- Parent/guardian of youth ages 0-17 years old hospitalized on a participating inpatient unit (either Intervention or Usual Care arm) during the trial period
- Age greater than or equal to 18 years old
- At least 1 parent/guardian must be at the bedside to receive intervention prior to discharge
Exclusion Criteria (Parents of Hospitalized Youth):
- Not a parent/legal guardian of youth ages 0 through 17-years-old hospitalized on a participating inpatient unit during the trial period
- Identified as clinically inappropriate (e.g., due to medical acuity or imminent transfer) based on judgment of nursing staff
- Primary language other than English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin/Chinese, Portuguese, and/or French
- Has completed the trial surveys within the past 12 months
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
United States · 2 centers
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07501247 · 857120 · 1R01NR021259