Testing the Reliability and Validity of the CIBA

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality Improvement

Treatments: Behavioral: Observing patient behaviors for anesthesia induction compliance

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02882594

2015-2812

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall objective of the study is to improve the experience for pediatric patients undergoing anesthesia inductions. The specific objective for this proposal is to establish whether the CIBA tool demonstrates inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity with the Induction Compliance Checklist.

Full description

The proposed research study will assess the reliability and validity of a new tool that is being used in the Department of Anesthesia (The Child Induction Behavioral Assessment tool) to grade the difficulty of patient behaviors exhibited during anesthesia inductions. The Child Induction Behavioral Assessment (CIBA) tool is more succinct than previously validated tools for assessing behavioral responses to inhalation inductions, making it practical for use in a busy clinical practice setting. Having clinicians document a patient's behavioral response to induction using the CIBA tool is useful because this information can help to optimize subsequent induction plans if the patient returns. Additionally, population data may be collected using electronic data reports for QI purposes. Prior to using data from the CIBA tool in QI initiatives, it is important to assess whether this tool is reliable and valid.

Enrollment: 384 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Presenting to Same Day Surgery department at CCHMC base campus for any surgical or Intervention Radiology procedure
• Ages 1-13 years old
• Male or female
• Patients of any ethnicity
• Family and participant communicate primarily in English
• Patients with normal neurocognitive development
• Patients undergoing inhalation induction using an anesthesia mask
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical classification status I, II, or III
• Patients who do or do not receive a premedication for anxiety
• Parent/guardian present at the induction of anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

• Guardian unavailable to give consent
• Neurocognitive delays
• Tracheostomy
• Intravenous (IV) induction or nitrous sedation prior to IV induction
• Coordinators unable to observe or fully observe the induction
• CIBA assessment not completed by anesthesia provider

Trial design

384 participants in 1 patient group

CIBA Study Cohort

Description:

Patients aged 1 to 13 years undergoing inhalation inductions for general anesthesia

Treatment:

Behavioral: Observing patient behaviors for anesthesia induction compliance