Improving Informed Consent in Pediatric Endoscopy

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Conditions studied: Informed Consent, Procedural State Anxiety, Subject's Satisfaction

In brief

Informed consent/assent in pediatric medicine is an accepted and important practice that has been rarely studied, tested for quality, or optimized for patient satisfaction. In the pursuit of enhancing and studying pediatric care, the investigators propose, as pediatric gastroenterologists, assessing the current state of parental and adolescent consent/assent in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and offering a computer based education program to improve it. The investigators will look at outcomes that include anxiety, satisfaction, attainment of informed consent, and patient flow efficiency in a GI endoscopy suite.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00899392

Run by

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

People needed

148

Starts

2008-09-01

Expected to finish

2009-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-07-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Parent of child undergoing 1st, elective, outpatient, sedated, upper endoscopy (EGD)
• Subject gives consent to participate
• Child of parent does not have a planned endoscopy intervention.

You may not qualify if…

• Does not speak or understand English
• Does not give consent to participate
• Does not complete consent instrument at a minimum during study

Where it is running

• Chidren's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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