None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The provision of preoperative information is of key importance in paediatric anaesthesia. As a complement to the preoperative conversation with the anaesthetist conventional brochure information is often provided to the children and their parents. However, web-based information is currently preferred in many situations in society today. The aim of this study is to compared knowledge tranfer between a modern interactive web-based information format with that of traditional brochure information. Our hypothesis is that web.based information is more effective concerning knowledge tranfer compared to the traditional text material.
Interventions
The goal of this work is to, in a prospective, randomized study, examine whether there are differences in transfer of knowledge between printed and web-based information to children and relatives before anesthesia and surgery.
a). The web-site includes information about the body and how it works, how it is being in hospital and what happens before, during and after anesthesia and surgery.
The system is interactive and contains age-specific information i.e. cartoons, web-books, videos and interv
The goal of this work is to, in a prospective, randomized study, examine whether there are differences in transfer of knowledge between printed and web-based information to children and relatives before anesthesia and surgery. a). The web-site includes information about the body and how it works, how it is being in hospital and what happens before, during and after anesthesia and surgery. The system is interactive and contains age-specific information i.e. cartoons, web-books, videos and interviews with children in different ages. The information for children is available in Swedish, English, Spanish and Arabic. The information for adults is available in over 25 different languagues. b) The information is administred to the families on the pre-anaesthetic meeting 2-3 weeks before the day of surgery. c) The information for children and parents have the same contains in general but in addition ,for the parents, information is provided about how to prepare the child for the hospital visit, when to talk to them, what to say etc. d) The information is available and free internet. The families get a card with the web-adress. e) The web-site contains data about i.e. the number of the visitors’ entries, what specific parts which have visitors, how often and for how long time, country and choice of languages. These data can be seen in trends over the days, seasons and years
Sponsors
Karolinska University Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
3 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All children between 3-12 years who are scheduled for outpatient surgery.
Exclusion criteria
Children or relatives who cannot understand Swedish, English, Spanish or Arabic. ASA risk class 3 and 4.
Outcome results
None listed