Protecting Home Healthcare Workers: An Interactive Video-based App to Coach Workers Through Challenging Health and Safety-related Situations

NCT04593901 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: GRT00054864
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 18
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This project will create a video-based app that empowers home healthcare workers to communicate with clients and their families about managing health and safety hazards in client homes. Using a participatory approach, home healthcare workers will 1) review and revise video scripts and recordings that demonstrate effective and less effective communication strategies when talking to clients, families, and other stakeholders about health and safety hazards and 2) contribute to the creation and review of an interactive app that they perceive to be useful, usable, and desirable.

Conditions

Occupational Exposure

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Usefulness, Usability, Desirability Assessment

  This flexible and individualized instrument uses a 5 point-Likert scale to assess whether the app was useful, easy to use, and appealing

  The UUD Assessment is administered once 1 day a participant has reviewed the app in order to assess overall usability. It is completed only once by each participant.

Study Arms (1)

Video and App Review

OTHER

Single arm study in which home healthcare workers review and provide feedback on scripts and/or videos and on the usefulness, usability, and desirability of an interactive app in an iterative, participatory manner.

Behavioral: Video and App Review

Interventions

Video and App Review BEHAVIORAL

Scenario Review: The scripts and/or videos will be iteratively reviewed by individual and small groups of home healthcare personnel using Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or similar. The participants will review scripts and/or recordings of the scripts and discuss how well each situation has been represented, how to improve it, and whether it is applicable in their agency. App Review: Following review of the scenarios, participants will review the smartphone app currently under development, including the control buttons, their placements, and other features of the screen interface. The first 9-12 participants (approximately) will be asked to provide feedback on the app's layout, control locations, and overall appearance. Once suggested changes have been made, the app will then be reviewed by the remaining participants for final review and usability assessment.

Video and App Review

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Home healthcare worker (including clinical, professional, and administrative staff)
• + years of age
• months of home healthcare experience
• access to computer/tablet/smartphone

You may not qualify if:

• none

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ohio State University: lead
• University of Kansas Medical Center: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Videotape Recording

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Tape Recording; Audiovisual Aids; Educational Technology; Technology; Technology, Industry, and Agriculture; Television

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Model Details: Study is pre-intervention that uses a participatory, iterative approach to develop an app for use in subsequent intervention studies.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 14, 2020
• First Posted: October 20, 2020
• Study Start: February 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: October 7, 2021
• Study Completion: October 7, 2021
• Last Updated: July 14, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)