Feasibility of developing children's Pill School within a UK hospital

Asia N Rashed; David Terry; Andy Fox; Nanna Christiansen; Stephen Tomlin

doi:10.1136/archdischild-2020-319154

Feasibility of developing children's Pill School within a UK hospital

Asia N Rashed, David Terry, Andy Fox, Nanna Christiansen, Stephen Tomlin

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OBJECTIVE: We assessed the feasibility of introducing an intervention (children's Pill School-PS) within a UK hospital to provide swallowing training for children, identified the proportion of children who can be switched from oral liquid medicines to pills and assessed children/parents' opinions about the PS training.

METHODS: 30 inpatient children (aged 3-18 years; taking oral liquid medicines; their liquid medications assessed suitable for switching to pills; can (and their parents) speak/understand English were included. Training sessions were delivered using hard sweets of different sizes.

RESULTS: 87% (26) of children successfully learnt how to swallow pills after one training session (mean duration 14.5 min), and 92% (24) were discharged on pills. 75 prescribed oral liquid medications were deemed suitable for switching to pills. Of these, 89% (67) were switched successfully.

CONCLUSION: Children as young as 3 years were successful in swallowing pills after training. Providing children PS training session within hospital is feasible and acceptable to children and their parents.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	705-708
Number of pages	4
Journal	Archives of Disease in Childhood
Volume	106
Issue number	7
Early online date	23 Nov 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319154
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021

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Keywords

health services research
pharmacology
therapeutics
Prospective Studies
Deglutition/physiology
Administration, Oral
Education/methods
Humans
Patient Education as Topic/methods
Child, Preschool
United Kingdom/epidemiology
Feasibility Studies
Schools/statistics & numerical data
Adolescent
Pharmaceutical Preparations/administration & dosage
Pharmaceutical Solutions/administration & dosage
Tablets/administration & dosage
Hospitals/statistics & numerical data
Child
Parents/education
Inpatients/education

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