%0 Journal Article
%T Improving post-concussion discharge education for families seeking emergency department care: intervention development
%J Brain injury
%D 2024
%A Kroshus, Emily
%A Steiner, Mary Kathleen
%A Chrisman, Sara P. D.
%A Lion, K. Casey
%A Rivara, Frederick
%A Lowry, Sarah J.
%A Strelitz, Bonnie
%A Klein, Eileen J.
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P ePub-ePub
%X BACKGROUND: Pediatric emergency departments (ED) are where many families receive post-concussion medical care and thus an important context for helping parents build skills to support their child after discharge. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: Develop a strategy for increasing parent provision of emotional and instrumental support to their child after discharge and conduct a pilot test of this strategy's acceptability. <br><br>METHODS: In a large pediatric ED in the United States, we partnered with parents (n = 15) and clinicians (n = 15) to understand needs and constraints related to discharge education and to operationalize a strategy to feasibly address these needs. This produced a brief daily text message intervention for parents for 10 days post-discharge. We used a sequential cohort design to assess the acceptability this intervention and its efficacy in changing parenting practices in the 2-weeks post-discharge (n = 98 parents). <br><br>RESULTS: Parents who received the messaging intervention rated it as highly acceptable and had meaningfully higher scores for emotionally supportive communication with their child in the two weeks post-discharge than parents in the control condition (Cohen's d = 0.65, p = 0.021). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This brief messaging intervention is a promising strategy for enhancing discharge education post-concussion that warrants further evaluation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 0269-9052
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2024.2318595