Anesthesia, Education, Informed Consent, Anxiety, Multimedia
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
DEVICEVideo education
Participants will be shown a video educating them on anesthesia and perioperative instructions.
Sponsors
Health Holland
NovaCair
Erasmus Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE (Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* adults visiting the preoperative anesthesia clinic * elective surgery * able to read, write and understand the Dutch language
Exclusion criteria
* cardiothoracic surgery
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Information retention short-term | Immediately after the information is provided | Score on the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire (RAKQ). Results will be expressed as the percentage correct answers of the total number of questions. A higher score means a better knowledge level. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Information retention mid-term | Two weeks after the information is provided compared to directly after the information is provided. | Difference in score on the Rotterdam Anesthesia Knowledge Questionnaire (RAKQ). Results will be expressed as the percentage correct answers of the total number of questions. A higher score means a better knowledge level. |
| Anxiety | Immediately after the information is provided | Difference in score on the APAIS (Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale). Scores can be between 6 and 30 points, with a higher score meaning a more anxious patient, more in need for information about the surgery and anesthesia. |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed