Effect of Preoperative Information to Parents Before Ear-nose-throat Pediatric Surgery

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Consumer Satisfaction; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Specific information brochure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03763292

REK2018/1830

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children who will have surgery and need anesthesia, and their parents are often anxious and show signs of stress and discomfort. A main reason for concern and anxiety is fear of anesthesia and surgery, and lack of knowledge of what is going to happen. The purpose of the study is to see if a specific preoperative information brochure aimed at the parents will make the parents feel better prepared for the procedures.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents with children undergoing ear-nose-throat surgery in the study period

Exclusion criteria

• Parents who do not speak nor read Norwegian.
• Parents who do not want to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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45 participants in 2 patient groups

Information brochure

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention: The parents are given a specific information brochure that describes the procedures that the child is going through during anesthesia when it has been decided that the child is going to have the surgery.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Specific information brochure

Information as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Information as usual, i.e. oral information about the procedures to parents when they arrive at the hospital with the child that is going to have the surgery.