Adenotonsillectomy Postoperative Parental Teaching Tool

Sarah Khan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tonsillectomy

Treatments: Other: Video; Other: Standard discharge teaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02517658

IRB15-00063

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will involve parents filling out a survey before & after watching a teaching tool video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIH63jqvlio) in addition to standard post-op teaching. The parents randomized to the video arms will watch the video while their child is in the OR and then either take the post survey immediately after or wait to take the survey until just prior to discharge. Parents not in the video arms of the study will also be asked to complete a survey pre and post standard pain management teaching.

Enrollment: 99 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent or caregiver of any child having either adenotonsillectomy or tonsillectomy.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-english speaking families that require an interpreter.
• Any parent/family/caregiver that declines to be part of the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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99 participants in 3 patient groups

Standard Discharge Teaching

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parents will receive standard discharge teaching from the nurse prior to discharge.

Treatment:

Other: Standard discharge teaching

Video w/ post exam immediately after video

Experimental group

Description:

Parents will watch the video and then take the post test immediately after watching the video.

Treatment:

Other: Video

Video w/ post exam after discharge teaching

Experimental group

Description:

Parents will watch the video but wait to take the post exam until after the discharge instructions are given by the nurse prior to discharge.

Treatment:

Other: Video

Other: Standard discharge teaching