Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships: A Pilot Feasibility Study (ED-HEART)

Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships: A Pilot Feasibility Study

Promoting Healthy Relationships Among At-Risk Adolescents: A Feasibility Trial in the Emergency Department

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

This is a single-site, randomized, controlled trial. Investigators will evaluate feasibility of the Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships (ED-HEART) intervention among adolescents age 14-19 years receiving care in the Children's Mercy emergency department.

This study is a mixed methods feasibility evaluation that will use a randomized controlled trial to assess feasibility of Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships (ED-HEART) (intervention arm: ED-HEART + teen resource list; control arm: enhanced standard care [standard care + teen resource list]). Adolescents age 14-19 years will be recruited and enrolled during an emergency department visit. Investigators will evaluate feasibility using the eight Bowen model feasibility constructs: acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, adaptation, integration, expansion, and limited-efficacy testing. Investigators will also examine theory of planned behavior constructs (attitudes, beliefs, perceived behavioral control, intention) to facilitate exploratory analysis of factors that may contribute to differential outcomes.

Adolescent Behavior, Emergency Department, Abuse Physical, Abuse Mental, Abuse Verbal, Abuse Domestic, HEART, Intimate Partner Violence

Adolescents will be enrolled in one of two arms: Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships (ED-HEART) (intervention arm) or Enhanced Usual Care (control arm). Adolescents will complete study surveys at baseline (Baseline Survey; intervention and control arms), immediately post-intervention (Exit Survey, intervention arm), and 12 weeks after intervention delivery (Follow-up Survey, intervention and control arms).

All adolescents take a baseline survey in the Emergency Department (ED), receive Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships (ED HEART) by a trained health educator, complete an exit survey while in the ED, complete a 6-week check-in to confirm contact information and aid retention, and complete a 12-week follow up survey.

All adolescents take a baseline survey in the Emergency Department (ED), receive enhanced standard care (i.e., standard care + teen resource list), complete a 6-week check in to confirm contact information and aid retention, and complete a 12-week follow up survey.

Behavioral intervention that assesses 1) healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, 2) conversation with partners around boundaries within relationships, 3) harm reduction strategies, and 4) resources for Adolescent Relationship Abuse (ARA) and related concerns, including Point of Care (POC) Reproductive and Sexual Health (RSH) harm reduction resources.

Number/proportion of participants reporting Emergency Department Healthcare Education Assessment and Response for Teen Relationships (ED-HEART) as acceptable.

2 survey items on acceptability, rated using 5-point Likert scale. Answers dichotomized to strongly/agree-agree vs. neutral/disagree/strongly disagree.

Report of ARA will be considered positive for any positive answer to one or more of six survey items assessing ARA

19 survey items using 5-point Likert scale to categorize each behavior from not abusive to extremely abusive.

Inclusion Criteria: emergency department (ED) patient 14-19 years of age. Exclusion Criteria: Developmental delay, severe illness, or cognitive impairment precluding informed consent/assent or completion of study activities, as determined by ED team or study team. Current ED evaluation for acute sexual assault/abuse. Current mental or behavioral health symptoms precluding completion of study activities, as determined by ED team or study team. Caregiver declines to step out to allow assent/consent in private or adolescent declines for caregiver to step out to allow assent/consent or participation in private. Adolescent is non-English speaking. Parent is non-English or non-Spanish speaking.

Study information will be shared with other members on the research team. Study data will be collected and stored via the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) system. De-identifiable information may also be shared with other researchers.