Seizure First Aid Training For people with Epilepsy (SAFE) frequently attending emergency departments and their significant others: results of a UK multi-centre randomised controlled pilot trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the feasibility and optimal design of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Seizure First Aid Training For Epilepsy (SAFE).

Design

Pilot RCT with embedded microcosting.

Setting

Three English hospital emergency departments (EDs).

Participants

Patients aged ≥16 with established epilepsy reporting ≥2 ED visits in the prior 12 months and their significant others (SOs).

Interventions

Patients (and their SOs) were randomly allocated (1:1) to SAFE plus treatment-as-usual (TAU) or TAU alone. SAFE is a 4-hour group course.

Main outcome measures

Two criteria evaluated a definitive RCT's feasibility: (1) ≥20% of eligible patients needed to be consented into the pilot trial; (2) routine data on use of ED over the 12 months postrandomis

SUBMITTER: Noble AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7201300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature