A randomized controlled trial comparing knowledge transfer regarding preoperative information to children and parents: Interactive web-based format (Anesthesia Web) vs. conventional brochure information

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616000528459
• Date of registration: 22/04/2016
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Karolinska University Hospital
• Public title: A randomized controlled trial comparing knowledge transfer regarding preoperative information to children and parents: Interactive web-based format (Anesthesia Web) vs. conventional brochure information
• Scientific title: A randomized controlled trial comparing knowledge transfer regarding preoperative information to children and parents: Interactive web-based format (Anesthesia Web) vs. conventional brochure information
• Date of first enrolment: 05/10/2015
• Target sample size: 200
• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616000528459.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Educational / counselling / training; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Blinded (masking used);Assignment: Parallel;Type of endpoint: Efficacy;
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Sweden

Contacts

• Name: Ms Gunilla Loof

• Name: Ms Gunilla Loof

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All children between 3-12 years who are scheduled for outpatient surgery.
Exclusion criteria: Children or relatives who cannot understand Swedish, English, Spanish or Arabic. ASA risk class 3 and 4.

Age minimum: 3 Years
Age maximum: 12 Years
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Anaesthesiology - Other anaesthesiology

Knowledge transfer of preoperative information ;
Knowledge transfer of preoperative information

Public Health - Health promotion/education

Surgery - Other surgery

Intervention(s)

The goal of this work is to, in a prospective, randomized study, examine whether there are differences in transfer of knowledge between printed and web-based information to children and relatives before anesthesia and surgery.

a). The web-site includes information about the body and how it works, how it is being in hospital and what happens before, during and after anesthesia and surgery.
The system is interactive and contains age-specific information i.e. cartoons, web-books, videos and interviews with children in different ages. The information for children is available in Swedish, English, Spanish and Arabic. The information for adults is available in over 25 different languagues.
b) The information is administred to the families on the pre-anaesthetic meeting 2-3 weeks before the day of surgery.
c) The information for children and parents have the same contains in general but in addition ,for the parents, information is provided about how to prepare the child for the hospital visit, when to talk to them, what to say etc.
d) The information is available and free internet. The families get a card with the web-adress.
e) The web-site contains data about i.e. the number of the visitors’ entries, what specific parts which have visitors, how often and for how long time, country and choice of languages. These data can be seen in trends over the days, seasons and years

Primary Outcome(s)

Aggregated score by the children regarding answers to control questions at the day of surgery, prior to anesthesia induction.

The questions where designed specifically for this study. Same answers can be found in both medias (webb and broschure).
The questions includes:
1. Knowledge of specific terms often used at the hospital.
2. Fasting procedures iv-procedures
3. Sterile and safety procedures
4. Pain management
[The questions will be asked prior the anaesthesia induction, on the day of surgery at the ward.]

Secondary Outcome(s)

None[n/a]

Secondary ID(s)

N/A

Source(s) of Monetary Support

ALF Avtal om lakarutbildning och forskning

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Region EPN, Stockholm