Health Literacy in the Perioperative Setting

Brittany Willer

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Pediatric Surgery; Health Literacy

Treatments: Other: Survey using a questionnaire.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07138482

STUDY00004902

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the association of the social determinants of health with perioperative health literacy in caregivers of children presenting for surgery. Another purpose is to determine the association of caregiver health literacy with preoperative caregiver anxiety and postoperative patient pain scores.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Caregivers of children age 3-17 years
• Patient undergoing ambulatory dental rehabilitation, orchiopexy, inguinal hernia repair, or tonsillectomy +/- adenoidectomy +/- ear tubes under general anesthesia.
• Primary language must be English, Spanish, Arabic, Nepali, or Somali.

Exclusion criteria

• ASA ≥ 3
• chronic pain condition
• inpatient
• regional anesthesia.