NOVEMBR Delphi Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
NOVEMBR: Non-Invasive Ventilation for the Management of Children with Bronchiolitis: a feasibility study. Phase 2: Delphi process and consensus meeting.
IRAS ID
238056
Contact name
Paul McNamara
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 11 days
Research summary
Bronchiolitis is a common, viral, chest infection that affects babies and young children up to 2 years of age. Bronchiolitis usually occurs during the winter months (October – March). A small number of children (around 3 out of every 100) need to come into hospital for help with their breathing or feeding.
Children who come into hospital for help with their breathing often receive oxygen therapy. There are different ways to give oxygen therapy, including through a face mask, head box or nasal cannula. All of these interventions are used in current clinical practice.
Up until now, studies have used different ways of measuring the effects of treatment. This makes comparing the results of trials very difficult. The aim of the NOVEMBR study is to develop a ‘core outcome set’. This is a list of outcomes that all trials in bronchiolitis should measure and report. Having a core outcome set will help to make sure that the results from all trials can be combined to get a better understanding of which treatments are best.
An outcome set has been derived from a systematic review and parent interviews conducted in the first phase of the study. This outcome set will be used to produce a Delphi survey for the second phase of the study.
The aim of the Delphi phase of this study is to agree which outcomes should be included in the core outcome set. As it is important that the outcomes included in a core set are relevant to everyone looking after children with bronchiolitis, health care professionals and parents/legal representatives will be asked to take part in a Delphi survey and to attend a face-to-face consensus meeting involving all stakeholder groups.
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/EM/0471
Date of REC Opinion
8 Jan 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion