Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children's wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate digital, multimedia information (MMI) for its effects on trial recruitment, retention, decisions about participation and acceptability by patients, compared with printed information.

Design

Study Within A Trial using random cluster allocation within the Forearm Fracture Recovery in Children Evaluation (FORCE) study.

Setting

Emergency departments in 23 UK hospitals.

Participants

1409 children aged 4-16 years attending with a torus (buckle) fracture, and their parents/guardian. Children's mean age was 9.2 years, 41.0% were female, 77.4% were ethnically White and 90.0% spoke English as a first language.

Interventions

Participants and their parents/guardian received trial information either via multimedia, including animated videos, ta

SUBMITTER: Moe-Byrne T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9280884 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature