Antibiotic Education for Children in an Emergency Care Unit

Official Title: “Therapeutic Education About Intake of Oral Solutions of Antibiotics in Children Under 6 Year-old at the Emergency Department in Robert Debré Hospital”

The purpose of this study is to determine if a patient education in acute condition about the intake of oral solution antibiotic in children under 6 year-old are effective to improve the satisfaction about the therapeutic education, the knowledge about antibiotics among the patients' families and thereby decrease the misuses of antibiotics.

Adherence to antibiotic regimen for common childhood illnesses, such as otitis media and streptococcal pharyngitis, is related to a variety of outcomes such as illness' remission, prevention of recurrent infections, maintaining of cost-effectiveness, and prevention of the growth of antibiotic-resistance. A patient and family 's therapeutic education about the intake of an oral solution of antibiotic should decrease the misuses of antibiotic, improve the family 's knowledge and the satisfaction of the patient and his family. Those factors are related to the understanding and adherence to the antibiotic prescription.

Intervention(s) in this Clinical Trial

• Other: antibiotic education for children in an emergency care unit
  • Educational, Behavioral, and Organizational intervention to improve the use of oral antibiotics in children under 6 years
• Other: antibiotic education for children in an emergency care unit
  • Educational, Behavioral and Organizational intervention to improve the antipyretic therapy in children under 6 years.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts in this Clinical Trial

• Other: antibiotics
  • Patient and family's therapeutic education to improve the use of antibiotics at home.
• Experimental: the antipyretic therapy
  • Patient and family's therapeutic education to improve the antipyretic therapy at home.

Primary Measures

• satisfaction (likert scale)
  • Time Frame: 15 days
    Safety Issue?: No

Secondary Measures

• Parent's knowledge
  • Time Frame: 15 days and 6 months
    Safety Issue?: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• French-speaking patients seen at the emergency department and discharged with a diagnosis of bacterial infections (urinary and respiratory tract infections, streptococcal pharyngitis, acute otitis media) requiring 5 to 10 days of an oral solution of antibiotic.
• Under 6 year-old.
• No opposition of the parents to be included in the study.
• Personal health insurance.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Chronic pathology such as: Sickle cell disease, AIDS.
• Parents with insufficient knowledge of French.
• Family not reachable by phone.
• Antibiotic's suspected allergy.

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Both

Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: 1 Month

Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: 6 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted for this Clinical Trial?: No

Lead Investigator: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris Other

Overall Clinical Trial Officials and Contacts

François Angoulvant, MD Principal Investigator Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris  

Overall Contact: Olivier Bourdon, PD,PHD +33 1 40 03 53 36 olivier.bourdon@rdb.aphp.fr

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on February 12, 2012

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00948779

Study ID Number: ID RCB 2008-A00892-53

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00948779

Health Authority: France: Ministry of Health