Information Retention After Video (Augmented) Preoperative Anesthesiological Education

Erasmus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education; Multimedia; Informed Consent; Anxiety; Anesthesia

Treatments: Device: Video education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05188547

MEC-2021-0769

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patient education is continuously becoming more important to enable patients to participate in making decisions regarding their medical treatment. Specifically, this is also the case for preoperative education on anesthesia. Worldwide, there are many initiatives to improve preoperative patient education and subsequent level of knowledge of anesthesia, for example by using digital aids. The demand for such aids has increased significantly since the start of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic to facilitate remote preoperative anesthesiological screening. Although many videos to educate patients on anesthesia have been developed and circulate on the internet, there has been little effort to compare this method of educating patients with the traditional one-on-one conversation between the anesthesiologist and the patient.

Objective: To compare short, mid-and long term retention of knowledge after education on anesthesia by watching a video to the traditional one-on-one explanation by the anaesthesiologist.

Full description

Participants will be randomized into 4 arms. A control group that will only take the knowledge test after the consultation by the anesthesiologist, a baseline group that will take the knowledge test before and after the consultation to investigate the added value of a knowledge test to knowledge retention. The intervention group is divided into 2 groups. One group will see the educational video and take a knowledge test afterwards. The other group will see the educational video and visit the anesthesiologist afterwards and take the knowledge test after the consultation.

After 2 and 6 weeks patients will be asked to take the knowledge test again, to investigate knowledge retention.

The knowledge test that will be used is the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire currently under development in the Erasmus MC Rotterdam.

Enrollment: 677 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adults visiting the preoperative anesthesia clinic
• elective surgery
• able to read, write and understand the Dutch language

Exclusion criteria

• cardiothoracic surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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677 participants in 4 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No video education, only consultation by the anesthesiologist. No knowledge test before the consultation.

Baseline

No Intervention group

Description:

No video education, only consultation by the anesthesiologist. Also a knowledge test before the consultation.

Video

Experimental group

Description:

Video education and a knowledge test directly afterwards. Consultation by the anesthesiologist after the knowledge test.

Treatment:

Device: Video education

Video Augmented

Experimental group

Description:

Video education and consultation by the anesthesiologist directly afterwards. The knowledge test is taken after the consultation.

Treatment:

Device: Video education