Impact of the Information Leaflet on the Anesthesia Knowledge and Anxiety Levels of Children and Parents

Gazi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety; Preoperative Anxiety; Pediatric Anesthesia

Treatments: Other: information leaflet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05221671

184(13.12.2021)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study includes applying a questionnaire to each child and their parents who applied to the anesthesia outpatient clinic for the gastroenterological endoscopic procedure. Children and parents will be divided into two groups, those who received and those who did not receive information leaflet. With the questionnaire both groups will be compared in terms of knowledge level and anxiety level.

Full description

All children under the age of 18, who meet the inclusion criteria, applied to the outpatient clinic for the preoperative anesthesia evaluation will be included in the study. During the preoperative anesthesia examination, pediatric patients and their parents will be informed about the study, their consent will be obtained, and their demographic data will be recorded.

Information leaflets will be given to the one group in that both the child and their parents will read it before the endoscopic procedure. Children will handed leaflet appropriate for their age. The other group will not receive information leaflets. Routine information about anesthesia will be given to both groups.

Demographic data, m-YPAS(The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale), APAIS(Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale) will be evaluated for both groups before anesthesia induction.

The anesthesiologist evaluate anxiety of children, will not know whether the patients received an information leaflets.

Parents will be asked to fill out the questionnaire in the waiting room. Anxiety scores will be evaluated by APAIS. The source of their knowledge about anesthesia, how anesthesia applications are made during endoscopy procedures and what their fears about anesthesia are will be evaluated.

Enrollment: 142 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children under the age of 18 and their parents who applied to the anesthesia outpatient clinic before the gastroenterological endoscopic procedure
• Knowing Turkish language
• Agreeing to participate in the research voluntarily
• Parent and child not having a diagnosed neuropsychiatric disease
• Literacy of the child and parent
• Not having verbal communication barrier

Exclusion criteria

• Refusing to participate in the research
• Not knowing Turkish language
• Having a verbal communication barrier
• Parent and child have a diagnosed neuropsychiatric disease
• Illiteracy of the child or parent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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142 participants in 2 patient groups

not received information leaflet

No Intervention group

Description:

During the preoperative anesthesia clinic examination, demographic data will be recorded and routine information about anesthesia will be provided. However, the information leaflet will not be handed to the patient and parents. The m-YPAS scale for pediatric patients will be evaluated and filled by the investigators before the anesthesia induction. Parents will be asked to fill out questionnaires for anxiety assessment and anesthesia knowledge level in the waiting room before the procedure.

received information leaflet

Active Comparator group

Description:

During the preoperative anesthesia evaluation, the children and their parents, who are included in the group who will receive information leaflets according to randomization, will be given information leaflets and both the child and their parents will be asked to read them before the procedure day. Age-appropriate brochures will be provided for children, and parent information leaflets will be provided for parents. The m-YPAS scale for pediatric patients will be evaluated and filled by the investigators before the anesthesia induction. Parents will be asked to fill out questionnaires for anxiety assessment and anesthesia knowledge level in the waiting room before the procedure.

Treatment:

Other: information leaflet