Exploring the impact of RAPiD & new version for friends and family
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Reducing patient delay in Acute Coronary Syndrome- exploring the impact of an innovative nurse-led intervention on real-world patient behaviour & creating a version for friends & family.
IRAS ID
325483
Contact name
Barbara Farquharson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Stirling
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 28 days
Research summary
Previously, we developed an animated intervention (RAPiD) for people with heart disease. RAPiD was designed to reduce patient delay with symptoms of a heart attack. A randomised trial in 2017 tested the effect of the intervention on people's intentions to call an ambulance for a range of hypothetical scenarios and was found to reduce delay. We want to know more about whether the intervention had an impact on what people did when they experienced symptoms 'for real'. Many of the participants from that trial will since have experienced heart symptoms and so we propose to re-contact them. We will 1) ask them to complete a self-report survey about heart symptom episodes 2) request permission to extract data from their medical notes about symptom episodes and delay times. 3) invite 20 participants to take part in qualitative interviews exploring their experiences of symptoms and the intervention 4) invite 20 participants' partners/significant others to participate in qualitative interviews: providing feedback on the intervention and identifying how it could be modified to meet the needs of people supporting person with symptoms.
This will allow us to optimise the intervention ahead of full-clinical trial.REC name
London - Chelsea Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/PR/0201
Date of REC Opinion
11 Apr 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion