Education Intervention as a Patient Safety Strategy in the Care of Nasoenteric Tube

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 22 February 2021
• Main ID: NCT03497221
• Date of registration: 06/04/2018
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
• Public title: Education Intervention as a Patient Safety Strategy in the Care of Nasoenteric Tube
• Scientific title: Simulation and Visual Identity as a Patient Safety Strategy in the Care of Nasoenteric Tube: Clinical Trial
• Date of first enrolment: June 3, 2017
• Target sample size: 1084
• Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03497221
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Other. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Brazil

Contacts

• Name: Mariur G Beghetto, PhD
• Affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Nursing technicians: All nursing technicians of the intervention units will be
potentially eligible for the study.

- Patients: with nasoenteral tube, adults (18 years of age or older) and who are
hospitalized in the IG or CG units.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Workers who are not working during data collection. The nursing technicians who are
part of the IG will be that could be reassigned to one of the units of the CG and vice
versa.

- Patient: unaccompanied patients who are confused and / or disoriented.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Enteral Nutrition

Patient Safety

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Education intervention

Behavioral: Visual identity campaign

Primary Outcome(s)

Absence of conformity of nursing care in enteral nutritional therapy (ENT) with recommendations of good practices according to institutional protocols. [Time Frame: 12 months]

Secondary Outcome(s)

The presence of adverse event related to administration of enteral diet by probe not positioned in the gastrointestinal tract [Time Frame: 12 months]

The presence of adverse event related to cases of diarrhea (three or more episodes of soft or liquid stools within 24 hours) [Time Frame: 12 months]

The presence of adverse event related to cases of constipation (a disorder characterized by persistent difficulty of evacuation or a sensation of incomplete evacuation and / or infrequent bowel movements for at least 3 days) [Time Frame: 12 months]

The presence of adverse event related to non-administration of enteral diet (partial or full) when suspension was not planned [Time Frame: 12 months]

The presence of adverse event related to displacement NT non-programmed [Time Frame: 12 months]

The presence of adverse event related to withdrawal NT non-programmed [Time Frame: 12 months]

The presence of adverse event related to obstruction NT [Time Frame: 12 months]

Secondary ID(s)

63247916500005327

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.