Interactive Perioperative Teaching Platform (IPTP)

Vidya Raman

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hydrocele; Cryptorchidism; Hypospadias; Adenoid Hypertrophy; Tonsillar Hypertrophy

Treatments: Other: Interactive Perioperative Teaching Platform

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03677453

IRB17-01340

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study will assess whether an interactive perioperative teaching platform (IPTP) provided to families of patients undergoing ambulatory pediatric surgery will reduce families' anxiety, and improve satisfaction and understanding, relative to current practice. The IPTP will educate patient families on the continuum of their child's surgical experience, from arriving at the hospital through registration, the operating room (OR), and the hospital floor. An active video format will be used to provide instructions for navigating the hospital; describe induction of anesthesia and the surgical procedure; and provide post-surgery and post-discharge instructions for pain management. A comparison cohort of patients undergoing surgery without access to the IPTP will be recruited to assess the benefits of the IPTP for improving metrics of family satisfaction, preoperative anxiety, and postoperative understanding of discharge instructions.

Enrollment: 151 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 0-18 years
• Undergoing adenotonsillectomy or orchiopexy, hydrocele or hypospadias repair
• Only patients booked for ambulatory surgery in the main operating room (OR)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients will be excluded if they have previously undergone surgery or require a translator

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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151 participants in 2 patient groups

IPTP

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients will have access to the web-based interactive teaching tool.

Treatment:

Other: Interactive Perioperative Teaching Platform

Non-IPTP

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will not have access to the web-based interactive teaching tool.