Pre-Anesthesia Visit: Analysis of Coverage Rate of Visit Content and Surgical Patients' Understanding of Information

Anshi Wu

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: To Assess the Coverage of Anesthesiology Residents' Explanations of the Content of the Visit; Patients' Understanding of the Content of the Anesthesia Approach Through the Physician's Explanations

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06735183

Pre-Anesthesia Visit (Registry Identifier)

PAV20241212

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to systematically assess the coverage of anesthesiology residents' explanations of the content of the visit during the preoperative anesthesia visit and the patients' understanding of the content of the anesthesia approach through the physician's explanations.

Full description

Physician Component:

In order to minimize the change of the interview content due to third-party supervision, the collected data were analyzed in the form of a questionnaire about the content of the visit after the preoperative visit by anesthesiology residents, including the main content of the visit, the duration of the visit, and the presumed level of patient's understanding of the anesthesia informed consent form.

Patient section:

To investigate the degree of patients' understanding of the contents of the anesthesia visit after listening to the visit. A questionnaire was used to collect the data, which included the content of the visit that the patients could recall, their level of understanding of the content explained by the physician, their concerns, and suggestions for improvement that could be taken to promote patient understanding.

Enrollment: 110 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA I-II
• Patients who have not previously undergone surgery under general anesthesia
• Patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy or laparoscopic appendectomy

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects who do not wish to participate in this study
• Patients with visual or auditory impairment
• Patients who are completely unable to understand the content of the communication or have communication difficulties

Trial design

110 participants in 1 patient group

Observation Group

Description:

To investigate patients' understanding of the content of the anesthesia visit after listening to the visit. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The questionnaire included the contents of the visit that the patients could recall, their understanding of the physician's explanation, their concerns, and their suggestions for improving the preoperative visit.