Time2Tap
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Caregivers’ perceptions and beliefs about non-invasive bladder stimulation techniques for urine production in non-toilet trained children in acute care: a qualitative study using focus group discussions
IRAS ID
233029
Contact name
Mathew Chandy
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Portsmouth Hopstials NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 1 days
Research summary
Children’s emergency departments are busy places. A common investigation in unwell children who come to hospital is a urine test to see if they have an infection or other problems that may be causing their symptoms. Obtaining a urine sample from a child who has not been toilet trained is often difficult, and can take hours, causing families extra time in hospital. Current guidance recommends taking the child’s nappy off and waiting for them to pass urine spontaneously. The parent or caregiver then needs to try and catch this whilst ensuring the sample remains sterile. This often means a long time spent in Emergency Departments and sometimes needs the child to be admitted to hospital or sent home to take a urine sample to the General Practitioner the following day.
Recent studies have researched ways of gently tapping or rubbing on the tummy of young children to stimulate them to pass urine more quickly. These small studies have shown that these methods can be effective however we do not know whether caregivers find these methods acceptable and what may encourage them to participate in larger studies to further prove the effectiveness of these techniques.
We will recruit up to twenty caregivers (minimum fifteen) with recent experience of looking after small children. We will hold focus groups in a convenient location and provide refreshments, travel expenses, and a voucher as a small token of appreciation. We will show the participants the new non-invasive methods and see what they think of it, as well as getting ideas about how we could test whether this works in a study. With this information, we will then see if it feasible to design a study which can properly test whether these methods work and how they can be best used in a hospital or primary care setting.REC name
London - London Bridge Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/1404
Date of REC Opinion
13 Sep 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion